What is an e-book and why is it needed?

Electronic books are increasingly entering our lives, replacing traditional paper editions. Why is this happening? Firstly, it is convenient, and secondly, on a small device you can gather a huge library of very different literature: from technical reference books to the collection of works of your favorite poets. What is an e-book? Maybe you do not know everything about her ...

E-book is a portable device - a tablet computer, which is designed to display textual information. These gadgets are different from the tablets and netbooks, the duration of the work, as well as limited functionality. About what an e-book is, in our time it is already widely known. But these devices appeared in 1998 and were equipped with LCD screens, but they did not gain wide popularity. Technology E-Inc breathed new life into the book-readers. It significantly reduced the consumption of energy devices and improved the quality of text display on the screen. Since this time, sales of electronic devices for reading are increasing, and manufacturers are not limited to the ability to display text files.

What is the modern e-book? This is a unique technology that allows you to convey the most qualitative reality of a paper page. The paper-like display does not blink, so reading books from the device is most convenient. One battery charge is enough to read 10 thousand pages. If you want to read the book together, the wide angle of reading allows you to do it also without tension. Paper-like electronic books will allow you to forget about charging the battery, so you can safely take the device with you on the road.

The library of electronic books is very large. To make it convenient to read them, the display of the electronic book is better to choose 6-6.4 inches. As for the built-in memory, then, as they say, the more - the better, but it's not worth chasing gigabytes in this case. If you want to buy an e-book only for reading texts, then, for example, 100-500 books will occupy 512 MB of memory. In addition, e-books have slots for SD and microSD memory cards. Some models allow you to increase the memory to 16 GB or more. In addition, modern electronic books support the mp3 format, so you can listen to music or audiobooks without any problems. You can also use the device to view photos in jpg format.

For the first time an electronic book was released by Softbook Press and NuvoMedia. To date, there are no more devices on the market, and they were replaced by Kindle models with the E-Inc screen, Sony, which has already released a dozen different models, and in the mid-price category you will find PocketBook, Wexler and TeXet.

What is the electronic book of our days? This device, which gradually in terms of functionality approaches the tablet. Operating systems are used, for example, Linux. So reading texts is just one of the many functions that an e-book can perform. The price of such devices, of course, is much higher than conventional devices for displaying text.