Comments on: E-books are suddenly everywhere http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/03/ebooks-are-suddenly-everywhere.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:27:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Simon Cohen http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/03/ebooks-are-suddenly-everywhere.html/comment-page-1#comment-9130 Simon Cohen Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:50:05 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2009/03/ebooks-are-suddenly-everywhere.html#comment-9130 <p>@Roberta: the ebookwise reader may do the same job (display ebook content) but it does so with dramatically different technology than the Kindle or Sony reader. While the ebookwise uses an LCD screen with roughly the same dpi resolution as a laptop screen, the Kindle and Sony readers use e-ink displays. E-ink is far more readable than LCD, consumes far less power and provides the closest thing to actual ink on paper in an electronic device. In the case of the Kindle, it also includes a built in cellphone radio so that you can download books directly to the device w/o a computer, text-to-speech, mp3 playback and much more. That's why they cost so much. </p> @Roberta: the ebookwise reader may do the same job (display ebook content) but it does so with dramatically different technology than the Kindle or Sony reader. While the ebookwise uses an LCD screen with roughly the same dpi resolution as a laptop screen, the Kindle and Sony readers use e-ink displays. E-ink is far more readable than LCD, consumes far less power and provides the closest thing to actual ink on paper in an electronic device. In the case of the Kindle, it also includes a built in cellphone radio so that you can download books directly to the device w/o a computer, text-to-speech, mp3 playback and much more. That's why they cost so much.

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]]> By: Roberta http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2009/03/ebooks-are-suddenly-everywhere.html/comment-page-1#comment-9129 Roberta Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:18:29 +0000 http://sync.ymbn.net/sync/2009/03/ebooks-are-suddenly-everywhere.html#comment-9129 <p>Having read several articles recently about e-readers, I have yet to read one that features the product from www.ebookwise.com whilst not as sleek as the others it does the same job at approximately one third of the cost.</p> Having read several articles recently about e-readers, I have yet to read one that features the product from http://www.ebookwise.com whilst not as sleek as the others it does the same job at approximately one third of the cost.

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