The E-Reader

Libraries are less likely visited nowadays, rows and rows of books are starting to disappear and everyone is carrying an unknown device that contains more than hundred shelves of books. It is rather interesting to see how people used to carry books around and today one out of ten would still actually carries a book around to read. The introduction of virtual reader, or perhaps known as an e-book has taken over the world of books. 

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The early introduction of ebooks on the computer allows people to read using Adobe Reader on the computer only but later on ebook readers are created to allow portability. The early ebook readers allow user to bring up to few hundreds of books depending on their size, however that has turned reading into a whole new dimension. The load of bringing books around has been eased and reading has been virtual since then. 

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However, Apple brings reading to a whole new level when they created iBooks. iBooks is a reading platform that allows users to virtually flip the pages allowing for the real feel of reading the book and the capacity of the Ipad to store up to thousands of books made reading to a whole new level. That is when the term library no longer exist but now known as virtual library as Joe would state in his blog. What would reading be in the future? Perhaps a projector into the air to read in motion?

However, with the rapid development in reading technology, making it at ease to bring around the reading materials, does the number of people reading increase? Has this technology helped with increasing the habit of reading among students? What is your verdict on this issue in education? Would the future generation lose the feeling of flipping a real book when all the books are gone?