Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Current State of E-Reader

•Price:

The e-reader’s prices ranges between 60$ and 260$. Many people think this price is very high. As a result, most of people move to use the normal books. Price is the most important barrier that stops the spread of e-readers.


•Features:

New e-readers include built-in support for converting text to speech by means of a high quality speech synthesizer. This feature will help people with visual disabilities.
Users can easily control for reading speed rate, pitch, modulation and volume by using voice preferences built into eReader.
E-Reader provides keyboard equivalents for all essential program functions and multiple ways to read, highlight, and navigate through a document. Keyboard commands can control all program functions and dialog box choices in eReader. For example, keyboard commands enable users to step ahead and back within the text while it is spoken. Users can customize modes for reading and highlighting and can choose whether the program reads an entire document automatically or stops at the end of a sentence or a paragraph.
E-Reader enables users to access text from a variety of fromats such as Web pages, word-processing documents, books, and newspapers.



Other features of E-Readers:

• Ability to load huge files in few Seconds (Tested with manuals of 3000 A4 size Page Content)
• Not only a Chapter but also a paragraph’s can be Bookmark
• Day / Night reading modes
• Ability to select various Fonts & Sizes
• Easy to download & install on your iPhone directly from AppStore
• 100% offline usage, no need for net connectivity while reading.
• Add Personal Notes / ToDo lists to a Paragraph / Chapter.
• Search with Highlight.
• Ability to add image tag in content.



•Famous Brands

Kindle 2 and Kindle DX are the most famous brand over the world, and the first Kindle e-Book reader was released in November of 2007.
Sony Reader is also a famous brand. Its most important feature is that the text is very easy to read and doesn't get washed out in bright light or darken when viewed from an angle as with a traditional LCD screen.
Other brands include BeBook, Fujitsu FLEPia, Ectaco jetBook, Hanlin eReader, iRex ILiad, and Foxit eSlick Reader.

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