Taking a Look at Digital Books

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In recent years more and more so-called reading devices for reading electronic books gained popularity among people. Not a long time ago they have not been heard , and now , especially after the release of Apple iPad was released on April 3, 2010 ( one of the key features that - just reading a book ) , the popularity of readers has grown to an unprecedented scale that was not before . People read , read , and will read books. Life goes on. Books have also undergone through the modifications : first, they were on the bark and papyrus , then - on the leather , and paper, but now we are holding the e-books. Firstly, there are three types of digital books: 1. Budget E-reader with a color TFT-screen . The benefit of it- is the price , the disadvantage - high power consumption and the dubious safety of the eyes. From a long read with a bright TFT- screen may be very tired for eyes if periodically a reader will not take breaks . The thing is flickering illumination , which is a fundamental part of the technology of TFT. To distinguish the TFT screen you need to look at a certain angle, which has a viewing angle of 90 degrees . This creates some discomforts , especially in bright sunlight. 2 . Readers based on electronic ink (technology E-Ink). It is considered safe to view, consumes a little power due to the technology used. Perform the same function as the first category , but have a monochrome image . E-books with E-Ink- display allow you to read as much as you want , because if you read them in the light there won’t be any irritation to the eyes. It can be concluded that the E-Ink screen is safer for the eyes. Angle of viewing any E-Ink screen is 180 degrees, which allows easily read text at any angle , even in bright sunlight. H... ... middle of paper ... ...y- because instead of taking loads and loads of heavy books we carry a light tablet that has everything we need. And, the last one but not least important factor is environmental. Without e-books 125 million trees each year would be cut and emit over 40 million metric tons of CO2 annually; equivalent to the annual CO2 emissions of 7.3 million cars . However electronic books do not harm the nature because no tree is needed for the production of the digital book, in addition, earlier if some allergic people couldn’t read a book because of the dust, now it is not a problem and they can easily read a digital book! Personally, I love to read and that is why I bought a mobile phone that has a large screen, through which is very comfortable to read books electronically. Remember, the main rule- read the digital books with breaks, and only then it won’t harm your eye-sight!

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