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TOP REASONS TO CONSIDER A KINDLE ereader THE KINDLE OFFERS Paper-like Screen, Sharper Display of Images and Photos, Read in Sunlight with No Glare, Adjustable Text Size, Read-to-Me Feature, THE KINDLE DOES Bookmarks and Annotations, Full Image Zoom, Personal Document Service Via Whispernet, tHE KINDLE HAS Built-in Dictionary with Instant Lookup, Wireless Access to Wikipedia.

The kindle can do more! The Kindle Store: Over 350,000 Books, Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs Shop the Kindle Store Right on Your Kindle You can search and shop the Kindle Store wirelessly right from your Kindle, allowing you to click, buy, and start reading your purchases within a minute. The Kindle Store offers the same great Amazon.com customer experience you're used to, including customer reviews, personalized recommendations, and low prices. We auto-deliver your selections wirelessly, so the next time you hear about a great book, just search, buy, and read. If you are out of wireless coverage, such as traveling overseas, you can download books to your PC or Mac and transfer via USB to your Kindle. More than 350,000 Books, Newspapers, Magazines, and Blogs Our vision is to have every book ever printed, in every language, available on Kindle. The Kindle Store currently has more than 350,000 books, newspapers, magazines, and blogs and we are adding more every day. Whether you prefer biographies, classics, investment guides, thrillers, or sci-fi, thousands of your favorite books are available. The Kindle Store offers 104 of 112 books currently found on the New York Times® Best Seller list. New York Times Best Sellers and most new releases are $9.99, and you'll find many books for less. Free Book Samples No need to judge a book by its cover. Kindle lets you download and read the beginning of books for free. Sample a new author or book--if you like what you read, simply buy and download the whole book with 1-Click, right from your Kindle, and continue reading. Sample length will vary by book. Read Kindle Books on Your iPhone The iPhone is a perfect companion for your Kindle. To read Kindle books on your iPhone or iPod touch, simply download our free Kindle for iPhone application. Our new Whispersync technology saves and synchronizes your reading location across your Kindle(s) and your iPhone. Now you can read a few pages on your iPhone and pick up right where you left off when you return to your Kindle.

NEW this year. Plastic Logic Que E-Reader Ignoring the $649 price tag ($799 if you want lifetime data connectivity from AT&T), this will be the e-reader to own in 2010. The flat body reaches almost sci-fi-like thinness, and because the 11.6-inch screen has touch capability, the bezel is entirely free of buttons except for “home,” just like an iPhone or iPod Touch. Plastic Logic has also forged partnerships with over 300 newspapers and magazines to have their content specially formatted for the device to preserve the print-like formatting – an important aspect of those publications that is largely lost on other e-readers.

Sony Reader PRS-600BC PROS: Ease of Use: The Sony Reader's touch screen is very user-friendly. Battery: The Sony Reader will hold a charge for up to two weeks. Memory Expansion: The Reader has an optional memory card that enables users to store thousands of eBooks. File Compatability: The Sony Reader will support audio, photos and images, and Word and PDF files. Download Options: The Sony Reader gives users the option of downloading thoughts of free eBooks from local libraries.
CONS: Display: The Reader's screen reflects glare, making it harder to read in different light levels. Readability: The Sony Reader is does not have as many different shades of gray and therefore is not as easy to read as other devices. Download Options: The Reader does not allow for wireless downloads. All downloads must occur on a PC before they can be transferred via USB.


BARNES AND NOBLE PRO'S AND CON'S Barnes & Noble Nook 3G PROS: Display: Though the Nook uses the same technology as other eReaders, and eBook and eMagazine text is black and white, the Nook also has a small 3 1/2" color LED screen for bookstore browsing. Sharing: The Nook is the first eReader that lets you lend books to others for up to two weeks. Wi-Fi: The Barnes & Noble Nook allows books to be downloaded via 3G connection and Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi access currently restricted to Barnes & Noble Wi-Fi).
CONS: Battery: The Nook will hold a charge up to 10 days without wireless. No Text-to-Speech: The Nook currently does not support text-to-speech.




Spring Design Alex E-Reader The Kindle-sized e-ink screen on the Alex may not scream of innovation, but the full-color touch screen below running Android certainly does, blurring the line between mini computer and e-reader. The Alex offers all the benefits of e-ink (smooth text, low power consumption), with most of the benefits of a smartphone (e-mail, Web browsing, calendar functions) as well. The size of the LCD screen also puts to the Barnes & Noble Nook to shame, and unlike our first Nook review unit, it actually worked!

History of the e reader Among the earliest general e-books were those in the Gutenberg Project, started by Michael S. Hart in 1971. An early e-book implementation were the desktop prototypes for a proposed notebook computer, the Dynabook, in the 1970s at PARC, which would be a general-purpose portable personal computer, including reading books.[2] Similar ideas were expressed at the same time by Paul Drucker. Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups. The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals for hardware, manufacturing techniques, and other subjects. Numerous e-book formats emerged and proliferated, some supported by major software companies such as Adobe's PDF format, and others supported by independent and open-source programmers. Multiple readers naturally followed multiple formats, most of them specializing in only one format, and thereby fragmenting the e-book market even more. Due to exclusiveness and limited readerships of e-books, the fractured market of independents and specialty authors lacked consensus regarding a standard for packaging and selling e-books. E-books continued to gain in their own underground markets. Many e-book publishers began distributing books that were in the public domain. At the same time, authors with books that were not accepted by publishers offered their works online so they could be seen by others. Unofficial (and occasionally unauthorized) catalogs of books became available over the web, and sites devoted to e-books began disseminating information about e-books to the public. As of 2009[update], new marketing models for e-books were being developed and dedicated reading hardware was produced. E-books (as opposed to ebook readers) have yet to achieve global distribution. Only three e-book readers dominate the market, Amazon's Kindle model or Sony's PRS-500 and Bookeen with Cybook Gen3 and Cybook Opus[3]. On January 27, 2010 Apple, Inc. launched a multi-function device called the iPad[4] and announced agreements with five of the six largest publishers that would allow Apple to distribute e-books.[5] However, not all authors have endorsed the concept of electronic publishing. J.K Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, has stated that there will be no e-versions of her books.

Some draw backs to e readers. Drawbacks Changing Technologies- The formats and file types that e-books are stored and distributed in change over time, for instance from advances in technology or the introduction of new proprietary formats. While printed books remain readable for many years, e-books may need to be copied to a new carrier over time. PDF and epub are growing standards, but are not universal. Availability of Works- Not all books are available as e-books. Aesthetic Appeal- Paper books can be bought and wrapped for a present and a library of books can provide visual appeal, while the digital nature of e-books makes them non-visible or tangible. E-books cannot provide the physical feel of the cover, paper, and binding of the original printed work. Power and Shelf Life- A book will never turn off or be unusable. The shelf life of a printed book exceeds that of an e-book reader, as over time the reader's battery will drain and require recharging. Additionally, "As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that [electronic] copies will last. Bits become degraded over time. Documents may get lost in cyberspace...Hardware and software become extinct at a distressing rate." [14] Durability- E-book readers are more susceptible to damage from being dropped or hit than a print book. Due to faults in hardware or software, e-book readers may malfunction and data loss can occur. As with any piece of technology, the reader must be protected from the elements (such as extreme cold, heat, water, etc.), while print books are not susceptible to damage from electromagnetic pulses, surges, impacts, or extreme temperates. Artistry and Author's Vision- An author who publishes a book often puts more into the work than simply the words on the pages. E-books may cause people "to do the grazing and quick reading that screens enable, rather than be by themselves with the author's ideas." [15]. They may use the e-books simply for reference purposes rather than reading for pleasure and leisure.[16] Costs- The cost of an e-book reader far exceeds that of a single book, and e-books often cost the same as their print versions. Due to the high cost of the initial investment in some form of e-reader, e-books are cost prohibitive to much of the world's population. Furthermore, there is no used e-book market, so consumers will neither be able to recoup some of their costs by selling an unwanted title they have finished, nor will they be able to buy used copies at significant discounts, as they can now easily do with printed books through Amazon's marketplace and other online retailers.