The general consensus among observers is that they haven't caught up to the dedicated e-readers in text quality quite yet, but give them time.

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, an infographic is worth an awful lot of data points and readers to get an idea of a long text within seconds.

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Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- The first generation of electronic readers had little more than black-and-white text.

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Going one step further would be text-to-speech features for the blind, which not all readers have.

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Even highlighting is easier and looks better in iBooks 2: It works in several colors, and rather than turning on highlighting first, readers simply hold down a finger and start dragging that finger along text to highlight.

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