E mail, e gadgets, e seva, e com and it goes on and on and poor Darwin thought e was for evolution. Man has not evolved much from Darwin days or for that matter from predator days at least in mind, but the machines definitely have. The evolution of technology continues at the speed of light where electronic media has evolved into computers which have evolved into notebooks which have evolved into palms. This combined with evolution of communication technology has resulted in everything available at your click when on move.If Darwin was born today he would have written an e book called "Survival of the smallest"
Think of rotten books torn and mauled with contents of fungi and dried botanica which has lost its smell in between, words that have disappeared into the colour of brownie paper, you think of old books that was to be preserved and cherished for Centuries and that was to live longer than our life carried from our Generations of forefathers.
It will all change in matter of next ten years the way the tapes have become extinct with the advent of MP3 and music on move has become universal buzz word, Books on the move –err e book on the move will revolutionize our daily lives the same way mobile phones have become an integral part of our mind and heart.
e books-Evolution of Books in the digital world
Think of carrying the entire Dan Brown collection or the lord of Rings trilogy and the umpteen office pdf files, technical manuals which need thousand turns every time you are on move, you will end up paying hefty on excess baggage or wail time listening to the same music till your ears get deaf. The digital revolution answers all your reading rumblings in one paper back novel sized gizmo which replicates the exact reading pleasure electronically and measures up to a neat 80 fiction novels which do not need bookmarks nor binding. Here are few e news.
e book reader-What it is
Its and electronic book which displays entire volume of e books that you have downloaded from the Internet through your computer, page by page with a scroll function. The type of files that you can read are pdf, xhtml, jpeg, txt, mp3 which makes it simply the most versatile book that you can hold.
e ink display-just another paper.
If you thought reading an e book is harmful to eyes, you will have to change your thoughts when you pick a Sony e book reader which uses the revolutionary e ink technology which just differentiates between black and white to give paper like display with no angle distortion nor light distortion which gives same reading pleasure like a book unlike LCD palmtops.
e volume-enough and more: You can store 80 books in one e book reader and more-10 service manuals and umpteen other documents plus music which never dies.
e nergy-charge your brains:You can read on trot one complete Lord of the rings trilogy without recharge or stow a bible, Ramayan and Quran for life in it. Simply said, a single charge on a Sony e book reader will give 7500 pages of reading pleasure.
The e books on the shelves.
Iliad ER 0100-iRex Technologies.
Formats supported-pdf, xhtml, txt, mp3(blogs, webcast), OEB
Linkup-USB, WIFI, Flash memory
Electronic paper display technology
Stereo jack with headset
Touchscreen A5 with stylus
Storage-30 (books+ Newspapers) (64 MB RAM and 128 MB Flash)
Weight-390 gms
Launch-available on fly
Cost-800 USD
Sony PRS 500 e book Reader
Formats supported-pdf, jpeg, mp3, BBeB, txt
Linkup-USB
Revolutionary e ink technology with 6 inch screen
Battery Backup-7500 pages on Li Ion Battery, 4hrs charge thru AC, 6 Hrs charge thru PC Notebook
Storage-80 books
Stereo Jack with head set
Weight-250 gms
e books-sold through Sony Online store
Launch –By December
Cost-320 USD
Hanlin V2-Jinke Electronics
Formats supported-pdf, excel, jpeg, ppoint, html, mp3, BBeB, txt
Linkup-USB
Display: e ink technology with 6 inch screen, 800*600 4 grey and slave keypad display with stylus
Battery Backup-8000 pages or 10 Hrs music
Storage-64 MB RAM and 1 GB MMC card
Weight-290 gms
Launch –available on fly
Cost-349 USD
Hanlin V2 belonging to my Chinese supplier, I have physically used last week and that was a chinese version V8.The bottom lcd keypad is handy.Sony should be a much better display notwithstanding their never ending story of delays with new products.Palm TX also supports e book formats however with conventional display with backlight which makes reading difficult though versatile with many features.
Ten years down the line,
Children may weigh the thought of carrying e book instead of carrying the burden of porting from Home to School.
Teachers will escape from witch hunt of chalk pieces from behind with e Board.
The waste paper guy will think that this guy is a waste, he does not throw Newspapers.
Chennai’s largest Landmark for books will end up spacing just 10 sq feet for e books.
Our book lender will have her e library under the closet of her computer Table.
Provided e books are not sold for e many-money and e books become Aam Admi’s (borrowed with apologies) notebook.
Thanks for reading my e book.