Book club members will be the first to test out the new Kindles and Sony rReaders in our library this week! Thanks to support from our P.A.C., next September the digital readers will be available for lending to all students interested in participating in the pilot project. Stay tuned for more information!
Check a technology review by Liz on our student Husky-1-ink book review blog, as well as comments from book club members as they are added here.
Monday, June 6, 2011
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I was a test reader. They read like books, but they smelled funny. You couldn't tell page numbers, and chapter numbers could only be found at the start of a chapter. instead, it told you how far (a percentage)you were into the book. It was hard to find specific parts of a book, so I would not recomend it for class work. All in all, real books are better.
I found reading on the Kindle to be more like reading on a paper book than I expected. The screen is comfortable to read on for extended periods, and the Kindle itself is much lighter than most paperbacks, even with the leather cover. As Willow mentioned, it has a bit of a plasticy smell, but I imagine that would disappear quickly. My two favorite advantages are the price and availability of e-books, and the compactness of the e-reader. Anything belonging to the public domain is available for free (legally) online, and books that are copyrighted are usually around half the price of a traditional paper book. For post-secondary students this could mean saving hundreds of dollars on textbooks, as well being free from carrying several pounds worth of textbook to each class. Additionally, they are eco-friendly as no paper is needed for the books. I am almost certain that I will be purchasing an e-reader in the future, to use both for college and casual reading.
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