Ebooks
The frenzy over electronic media is becoming a hot topic for many reasons today. E-books, one of the newest electronic sources, are becoming more and more talked about in debates dealing with readings. Although e-books have their advantages, the disadvantages seem to overwhelm in many cases. I feel the Internet is very useful to get electronic articles, but they are easier to read if they are on paper. According to Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in “Click if You Dar: It’s Cyberscript”, the e-book was very appealing in its book-like size and shape (Lehmann-Haupt 1). Being able to just throw it in her purse and go struck Michelle V. Rafter in “E-Books May Become Mainstream through New Devices and Titles” in a positive way (Rafters 1). The use of controls with the e-book also seems to be very beneficial. Lehmann-Haupt goes on to say that turning pages with a touch of a button is easy. Shrinking or enlarging print and moving to any part of the book with a click helps in many cases (Lehmann-Haupt 1). According to James Bunnelle in “The E-Book: Future or Fad”, SoftBook came out with a reader that used a stylus with a touch-sensitive screen. The advantages to this are being able to annotate text, highlight important passages,
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Approximate Word count = 1487
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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