If you are used to touch-typing on a full-sized keyboard, you'll find it cramped, but it is roomy enough for a generation weaned on text-messaging via cell phone.
Featuring a 212 ppi display, Kindle Paperwhite has 62% more pixels than the previous generation Kindle, making text in books and periodicals crisp and clear at any size.
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Today's generation is far more proficient at text messages, social media and online video.
The second generation had black-and-white text, simple graphics and Web connectivity.
New, innovative methods will be required to get through to this generation of young people, for whom text messaging and the Internet are integral parts of daily life.
But this is a case that needs to be made and remade from first principles in every political generation, not just by consulting a text put on paper in a bygone age.
One hopes that Twitter--and text-message costs--can teach a new generation the same lesson.
When the young members of Generation-i use their phones to send text messages, the small keyboards make typing awkward and abbreviations even more important: "b4n" (bye for now), "cu" (see you).
Several agreed that text enhances call-in and chat options for a generation of young people who prefer to communicate by typing on their phones, especially when they don't want parents, teachers, friends or boyfriends to listen in.
Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- The first generation of electronic readers had little more than black-and-white text.
The system will combine what are called formal argumentation techniques with Natural Language Generation (NLG), which essentially converts complex information and data into text summaries.
Text on the Kindle Paperwhite is darker and crisper than what I've seen on previous-generation Kindles.
On the DR1000's 10.2-inch diagonal screen, with slightly brighter whites and darker blacks than the last generation of E-Ink devices, PDFs not only scale to the right dimensions, but their text and graphics appear crisper and more paper-like than E-Ink has ever looked before.
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