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10月19日 E-Readers With all the talk of e-readers, I have been constantly researching
over the last few years to see what they have come up with and how far they have
progressed. So far I like some of what I have seen but just not enough to buy.
Why? One reason really...they are all still monochrome. I have been waiting for
some company to develop a colour screen e-reader at an affordable price.
The good new is, they have finally gotten around to it and one company Asus will soon be launching theirs (Google it) and I can hardly wait for them to do so. Not that I will be buying it right away. Like all other gadgets, I prefer to wait a bit until after the first wave when they drop the price. I am not that desperate as yet for an e-reader so I don't mind the wait. The Asus e-reader will be a dual colour screen at an affordable price or so they say, which I think it will be much better than Amazon's Kindle but again we will just have to wait and see if this is so. As an avid reader, I really love books. I especially like a new book, the feel, look and smell. Crazy you may think but that's just me. In fact if I buy or borrow a new book, I will wrap it so it doesn't get damaged. So for someone like me who loves electronics gadget but also likes books, I couldn't help but wonder how I would feel about using an e-reader. So I decided to test whether I would like it or not. The thing is I don't exactly have one and I wasn't going to buy one either, but I do have something else that could be used as an e-reader, my Dell PDA with the Microsoft Reader software. To date I have read several books using my PDA and found that I very much like using it. I can look up words, highlight passages and I don't have to worry about marking the page. I can simply tell it to go to the last page I stopped. In addition I can sort my books, and I can take as many books as I want when I travel without having to worry about weight. Believe me when I say that it's no fun traveling with 20 books packed in your bag and yes I have done that. That's how much I like to read. So for me an e-reader would be a wonderful gift and best of all I can still read paper books when I want. |
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