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.
They pick these books that touch on different parts of literary culture and popular culture in really interesting ways.
An 1883 profile portrait of Henri Cordier, an eminent Sinologist, writing in his study surrounded by books and papers reveals a touch of Edgar Degas.
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And that's not even counting the people who read books on a smartphone or iPod Touch app.
This new version is equipped with an E Ink Pearl display, capacitive touch and built-in Wi-Fi to download books wherever you want in seconds.
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He tried to get in touch with his translators, but they were busy with other books and other authors, and replied to his letters with polite and evasive phrases.
In my office, when I extend my arms, I can touch both walls, and it's crammed with my favorite books.
As a final touch, Ms. Kemble likes setting out a small stack of books for guests to browse often ones featuring vintage holiday photos, stories of Christmas wishes or collections of quotes or short poems.
All Kindle books are "Buy Once, Read Everywhere"-customers can read their Kindle books on Kindle devices and on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Android and Windows phones and Android tablets using the free Kindle apps.
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"Buy Once, Read Everywhere": Kindle books can be read on Kindles, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, PCs, Macs and Android-based devices.
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From sketchbooks, to Guides To Middle-earth, to art books, to anything designed to tempt a reader wanting a real book to touch and turn those pages, something was there.
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Touch-screen looks set to complement existing hardware, rather than banish them to the history books, enabling more collaboration and simplifying the process of accessing multi-media facilities on the PC.
People Hub pulls together contact information from multiple address books and social networks into a single location, making it easy to stay in touch with friends and set up contact Groups and private Rooms for sharing.
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SEATTLE, Jun 27, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced a new update to Kindle for iPad and Kindle for iPhone and iPod touch, which allows readers to enjoy the benefits of embedded video and audio clips in Kindle books.
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Other people close to Apple, however, say the device will be more like an iPod Touch with a bigger screen that will make it easier to watch movies, play videogames, read electronic books and surf the Internet.
As a bevy of new books (some never before available in English) makes plain, no modern seer is worthy to touch so much as the hem of his diving suit.
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