Are you thinking the printing press is the best thing to happen to the written word? Well, you might be write, but electronic book devices (aka e-book readers) aren’t far behind. Digital readers make it easier, lighter, and more eco to carry everything ever wrote anywhere you go. Now that’s what we call movable type.
Here are some benefits of having e-book:
- Turning the page on waste. E-books don’t use paper or require fuel to ship, and it takes the same amount of energy to produce just four sheets of paper as it does to power a laptop for an hour (say, while you’re downloading entire e-books).
- No more dog-eared pages. With e-books, you can easily track down your favorate passages.
- 15th century book prices. (Well, cheaper after the initial investment, anyway.) With the Amazon Kindle reader, new NY Times best sellers cost about $10 (rather than the usual $20 and up), and classics are about $2.
- Picture book-easy reading. E-book readers allow you to change text size and adjust brightness, and unlike computer screens, you can use them even in direct sunlight sans glare.
- They’re light as a bookworm. Weighing around 1/2 pound, you can take hundreds of books with you without straining those biceps.
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