But armed with wireless connections, eReaders can finally create a seamless social reading experience.
The reading experience is stripped to pretty much all but its most basic functionality.
Fine-tune your reading experience with eight adjustable font sizes plus a choice of six font styles.
The auto-layout automatically adjusts the content to offer the best reading experience according to the format.
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With non-glare, no backlit e-Ink display, it delivers a paper-like reading experience, even under bright sunlight.
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To approximate the reading experience, you can simply re-read this post about 50 times.
Customers continue to choose Kindle because they love the world-class reading experience it offers.
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Kobo supports ePUB file formats including rich text and images, offering a top-quality reading experience.
Intuitive navigation and comfortable layout of content offer an excellent reading experience no matter where you are.
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Customers can now get this award-winning device, along with NOOK's best-in-class digital reading experience at an unbeatable price.
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The reading experience is unmatched, offering beautifully rendered text, magazines in spectacular HD and lightning fast page turns.
Each Kindle offers a variety of font styles and sizes, so customers can easily customize their reading experience.
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But with editorial content, the reading experience ends up paying a heavy price.
It includes Kobo's latest software with more ways to personalize the reading experience, get recommendations and discover new content.
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This new capacitive touch display (with anti-glare treatment) offers the best digital reading experience in a very slim device.
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Improving the reading experience wasn't simply a matter of tricking out the screen.
This feature, plus the ink's high contrast ratio, provides a display that can offer a truly paper-like reading experience.
Its simple interface and innovative screen technology provided a top-notch reading experience for those who still care to read books.
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These print subscribers also prefer their app-based news to be more like a traditional reading experience rather than to have high-tech features.
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Taken together, the stories created a daily reading experience like no other.
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"The whole concept is to try to reproduce the reading experience and make it a little bit better, " says Henry Yuen, Gemstar's CEO.
There's no reason that a book retailer (or someone else) couldn't define the digital reading experience and create a commercial proposition around reading.
By targeting tablets instead of smartphones, not only do you provide computer users with a better reading experience, but you lower the adaptation costs.
Kindle Paperwhite's built-in front light is designed to be used at all times-both in daylight and in a dark room-for the clearest, crispest reading experience.
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It's light, eminently pocketable, and presents the best electronic reading experience.
And what of this reading experience we've heard so much about?
Overall, it seems like a simple, clean and fresh reading experience.
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One of the concerns I hear from people who love bound books is that the sameness of touch and smell in e-books lessens the reading experience.
Additionally, Plastic Logic is partnering with Olive Software and premier publishers to give QUE users a richer content and reading experience that is optimized for QUE.
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"E-readers have found their place in today's digital lifestyle by providing users with a unique reading experience, " said Mark Shanahan, senior technology merchant at Staples Canada.
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