After swearing that I preferred paper books, I now read e-books on my Kindle and on my iPad.
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The screens are black and white, and work by reflecting natural light instead of glowing themselves, mimicking the way text looks in paper books.
We did this by offering a new comfort and demonstrating how the competition between e-readers and paper books is changing our lives.
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Stephens pointed out that paper books are more economical for large-scale distribution.
Because of their many current advantages -- such as familiarity, resolution, portability, disposability -- paper books will clearly be with us for decades to come.
The Kindle, which was created about three years ago, did face some backlash at its outset from people who preferred paper books and feared straining their eyes.
So far, says Mr Kessel, this does not seem to spell the end of paper books, since Kindle users buy just as many bound books as before, so that their total consumption of books goes up by 2.6 times.
Nowhere else can you browse a selection of more than 82, 000 paper books, walk over to Area-e, our new digital hub, where you test drive a variety of e-Reading devices, and then search for your next favorite book in our e-Bookstore.
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Young writers know that blogs are cutting-edge but want to see their pieces, nonetheless, in real ink on real paper in real books, newspapers or magazines.
The publishing monolith made his fortunes in the pages of ye old paper-based books, but it seems that he'll be paying off future mortgages with something else entirely.
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The assistants support pupils with their homework and from time to time the institution provides children with school bags, paper and school books to make it easier for them to attend school.
As electronic books push paper ones aside, movable type seems fated to be replaced by movable text.
It also mails paper copies of these books to specialists around the country as a kind of transparency-marketing.
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There's so much iffy paper still on the books that 2009 is more of a workout year with few major profit centers igniting and others, like the collateralized debt business, shrinking to insignificance.
This was at a time when all books were in paper and mostly bought from shelves.
My apartment is filled with such books that on paper, I never should have been able to understand.
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The best example of this is the advent of print: About 40 years after Gutenberg, as paper printing and paper folding took hold, books became portable instruments of a capitalist explosion of activity.
Of course, Gates used the keynote to announce plans of a new technological breakthrough - a font enhancement called ClearType that makes text on an LCD look like text on paper to improve e-books.
Long term the school is saving money on photocopying, paper, pens and eventually, books.
All of the books, cards and paper are handmade using natural fibres such as flowers, sugar cane, banana leaves, cactus and coconut husk.
Computers were no longer a luxury for the few, but are as essential a part of education as books, pens and paper, he added.
The concern over kids damaging the devices only makes sense if we forget they already get books made of simple paper that have to be replaced constantly because of wear and tear anyway.
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Lab members originally wrote the software in 2011 for a toy car racing game, in which small virtual cars zoom around a tabletop, realistically rounding behind books and flying off paper ramps.
The spiders even interact with real things on the desk, crawling over books and disappearing under pieces of paper.
Amazon has added a finish to the capacitive screen that feels like the paper stock used in high-end hardcover books.
Meanwhile, schools and colleges have used money originally set aside for paper textbooks to buy tablets, e-books and apps.
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Pictures in many books run small (to save paper) and overly contrasty.
Many Afghans are illiterate and rely on symbols like light bulbs and books to identify their candidates on the ballot paper.
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