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This website is created for you, dear visitors. I’m a great lover of different electronic devices and 15 years ago I started dreaming about something that could replace paper books. Something like a small computer aimed at displaying text. Dreams come true, and clever people invented the pocket PC. When I got this wonderful device I was really delighted with it for a long time. Gradually creating a eBook Reading devices became a separate field and we got a whole bunch of smart and elegant products under the joint name of the ‘eReader’. I decided to put together all the available devices of this kind at my website and to describe the technical features of all of them. The task turned out to be quite challenging, and I have to add information to the website step by step. Now, if you have decided to buy an e-Reader, it’s quite logical that you’d want to know as much as possible about it. This is what this website is created for. So, the recent recession gave a stimulus to computer companies and they developed a new field, which is electronic books.
It is difficult to compete with Apple. One cannot but agree that popularity of Apple’s latest new products – iPad and iPhone 4 – strikes. The products are sold incredibly quickly, and consumers have to wait for the next gadget lot. The company has sold 3, 27 million units of clipboard computers by now. And 1, 7 million devices found their owners after three days release. However, if you just like reading everytime and everywhere, then better draw your attention to the devices described below, which are not so cheap and more specialized. The largest number of devices, different both in their design and their price, is presented by Sony.
The first model - Sony Reader Portable Reader System 500 (PRS-500) – was launched in the U.S. in September 2006, followed by Canada in April 2008. The next model - PRS-505 – went on sale in the U.K. on September 3, 2008. On October 2, 2008 Sony presented their next device - PRS-700. In December, 2008 Sony announced that since the launch of the device in October, 2006 they’d sold 300 000 eReaders. Among the three giants of American book industry that create their own reading devices only Sony doesn’t publish e-books, which doesn’t prevent the company from releasing excellent reading devices. Sony rivals are other companies that base their devices on electronic paper – Amazon Kindle, iRex iLiad, Jinke Hanlin eReader, Aluratek and CyBook by Brookeen.
One of the leaders in this field is Amazon Kindle.Amazon Kindle is a hardware-software platform for reading e-books developed by Lab126 (which belongs to Amazon.com).
Barnes & Noble numbers more than 1 000 000 books and magazines available at best selling prices! Obviously, it is possible to access the books from different devices, but it’s still advisable to use their brand-name product.
IREX hasn’t kept out of this business either and released wonderful “babies”. I was especially impressed by iRex Digital Reader 1000S, although it’s evidently overpriced. In my opinion, IREX got even ahead of Sony, as their devices are far more advanced both in their design and functions, despite the fact that their range isn’t as big.
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Saturday, 04 Sep 2010
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