These electronic pages use less power than liquid crystal displays and also look more like printed paper.
Now Microsoft Corp. has joined Apple and Google in making electronic tablets that can replace printed paper.
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Instead, the user relies on reflected light, as he would if he were reading a sheet of printed paper.
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But the newspaper decided that the story was solid and they decided to put it on their Web site last night and then the printed paper this morning.
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Not only does this mean that electrophoretic displays are cheaper to run, the lack of constant refreshment makes them more comfortable to read as comfortable, it is claimed, as printed paper.
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The Samsung e-book displays reflect light naturally and deliver an appearance similar to that of printed paper, allowing people to read more naturally than they would with other backlit electronic paper devices.
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However unlike poems printed on paper, there is no fixed, library version of a finished work.
One machine uses hundreds of chips, each with 188 custom processors, to move 1.2 trillion bits a second, the printed-paper equivalent of 150 pickup truck loads.
Of all the mass media, from ancient official or personal inscriptions on stone to today's satellite broadcasts, those printed on paper have had the most profound influence.
In September, he and his colleagues pre-printed a paper on the subject which did not acknowledge the contribution to the field of two researchers called Arnon Dar and Nir Shaviv.
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He called it the phonograph, and it took a long time for librarians to figure out that the echoes of speech and music that Edison and his successors etched on discs were as important a part of our collective memory as the words that Johannes Gutenberg and his successors printed on paper.
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Like most business cards of the area's public officials, Bragdon's is printed on recycled paper.
"Virtually all the catalogs you receive in your mailbox are printed on virgin paper, " Smith says.
Amid their appeals for support, the paper printed updates and letters from the public on its front page.
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Interested readers are invited to submit an application form which will be printed in the paper on Tuesday.
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One project is The book that disappears, a volume printed on reactive paper that turns black after 20 minutes.
O'Reilly's books all have something in common besides being printed on recycled paper, a readable design and animal pictures on the cover.
As these are printed on thermal paper, they fade unless kept cold.
The new Dandy is about being brighter and livelier, says Heggie, as well as feeling much cooler, and being printed on better paper.
Both evolved because folks with a new job title wanted a magazine printed on glossy paper, and a conference and an association that they could call their own.
That, at least, is the reassuring tale told in the brochure (printed on recycled paper, of course)available for discerning shoppers at the track-lit, pristine poultry cooler in Whole Foods stores.
In a paper printed in the British Medical Journal, Tim Crayford, Richard Hooper and Sarah Evans reported that the mortality rate for characters in the television soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders exceeded those of bomb disposal experts and racing drivers.
In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
He pointed out ancient photos of Kashmiris in formal dress and showed us black-and-white images printed on silver gelatine paper.
Rather than update these documents electronically, construction project printed them out on paper and changed them manually.
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The real blame for delaying real change in the U.S., Japan and most of Europe goes to those who keep buying the phony paper being printed by central bankers.
Scanning instead of typing might work since most space-food packages have bar codes, but some are stamped on shiny curved surfaces while others are printed on thin crinkled paper wrapped around freeze-dried items.
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That is, to say that the endings are identical because they use similar assets is like saying that two endings of a Choose Your Own Adventure book, in one of which you die and in the other of which you live, are identical because they are both printed in ink on paper.
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