The tactile pleasure of worn pages between your fingers is hard to replace. But when it comes to encouraging people to embrace the written word, e-readers (electric readers) trump their physical counterparts.
While there are people who still love to open a book or magazines, and skim the glossy pages, there is a generation of today who get greater pleasure in switching on their latest smart gadgets to unveil the world of an 'e-reader'. For those who aren't familiar with this term, an e-reader (also referred to as an e-book) is a book downloaded to the format read from a screen.
Rising in popularity, E-readers are signalling that it may be be impossible to imagine a world with traditional books sometime in the not-so-distant future. Being faster, more environmentally friendly, and just technologically forward, e-readers enables users to read books electronically at the touch of a button no matter where they are in the world. '
Since the development of the iPad, or other tablet-like gadgets, e-readers have become increasingly popular. I was actually introduced to the e-reader notion last year when a family friend bought me a book to read from Dymocks online and which allowed me to read it as an e-reader. Much to my surprise, there are thousands of national and international titles of books and magazines available to be purchased and read as an e-reader available on Dymocks website.
While I don't think the world of printed books and magazines will diminish, I just think e-readers is the perfect addition to our advanced society. Technology is moving faster today than it ever has, and it's only fitting that we move and adapt to it.
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