Ebook readers are such an obvious use of technology that they should have been invented years ago.
The main benefit of ebook readers is that they have a screen that’s readable in daylight, and which doesn’t make your eyes feel as though they’ve been sandpapered when you read for more than five minutes.
The key to the whole thing is the e-ink display screen. E-ink is the nearest you can come to paper on a computer. There’s no backlighting, so away goes the eyestrain, and if you’ve ever tried reading a book on a flickering computer screen you’ll be able to see the benefits of ebook readers immediately. In fact an e-ink screen is easier on the eye than reading a real book.
What’s more, e-ink uses absolutely no power unless you’re changing the display. That means that the only drain on your battery is when you turn the page, so battery life can run into weeks rather than hours
Many thousands of out of copyright ebooks are available free off the internet via Project Gutenberg, and current publications can be bought and downloaded online in seconds. They need minimal storage as a digital book takes only a few hundred kilobytes. In fact you can store every book you’ll ever read in your life on a single optional SD card.
The most popular ebook reader in the UK today is the Sony PRS 505. It weighs just a few ounces, is smaller than a paperback book, and you should get one – they’re brilliant.
#1 by ned - April 2nd, 2009 at 11:43
Just browsing yr blog from affiliate forums and saw this.
had to say I got one of these sony ebook readers for christmas and it’s so easy to read it’s not true. I’ve got 534 books on it so far
nice little blog by the way, good luck with it.