Meanland extract – The lowdown on the eReader
Jacinda Woodhead
March 30
Roughly 5 million eReaders were sold around the world in 2009. For the uninitiated, the world of the eReader can be positively perplexing, brimming with assumed knowledge.
The Kindle is possibly the most recognised, with the much talked about but as yet unreleased iPad a close second. Then again, a quick Google search reveals there are hundreds of eReaders available: the Onyx Boox 60, the nook, the Pocketbook 302, the Cybook Opus, the Amazon Kindle DX, the Kindle 2, the eSlick Reader, the Cybook Gen 3, the Librie – you get the general idea.
So it seems some elucidation is in order.
What is this eReader I’ve been hearing so much about and will it bring meaning to my life?
I may be stating the obvious, but an eReader is a device designed to read digital books and publications, or digital texts, more commonly referred to as eBooks.
E-readers are portable, low-power, high-resolution devices specifically designed to display digital versions of written material from books, magazines, newspapers, and other printed sources. Some e-readers also provide access to electronic documents like blogs, websites, news feeds, and the like.
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