Comparison of e-book readers

I don’t like to read, I only like to read books that I have to read if its work related, or for school. Growing up as a child my family did not read to. When I become older I had to do a lot of reading on my own. Like reading magazines, books, and the newspaper to be informative about things that I needed to know to be educated about in life. I don’t have any children at this moment but I hope to have children one day. And to be able to read books to them from a very early age in their lives. In…

challenged students. Sitting among my stacks of books with a personality molded by the stories I've lived through and information I've learned, I'm amazed at how far I've come during the past years. I can attribute this change to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. This book unlocked the vast and intriguing world of reading to me; it transformed me from a stubborn, temperamental, and borderline illiterate elementary schooler to an absolute book worm. It ignited my passion for reading and…

fiction? Is it at all similar? Why or why not? Every book is different. Some books lead the reader on a great adventure, others give advice on how to be a better basketball player. Both the books I read for this summer assignment provide an argument on how to be a better person and use stories in order to convey emotions to the reader, therefore making an argument about humankind. One of these novels was fiction, the other nonfiction. These two books while having similar goals go about…

However, in my experience, avid readers are superior conversationalists and use their time reading to better connect to the outside world. When I began building a library of books and spending an increased time reading during middle school, I wanted to absorb as much knowledge as I could. I certainly would have qualified as an introvert then, but over time, my passion for reading has led to sharing and connecting with others in ways that would not have existed for a non-reader. My bookshelves…

what book it was. Fiction, Non-fiction, Biography, Autobiography, none of it interested me at all. I also don’t have a good attention span, so if I didn’t like a book in the beginning my ears would shut off. I would stop listening to it, or I would stop remembering what I had just read. Until my freshman year, I wanted to do good in high school because high school is when grades start to matter. I had Mrs. Eischeid for my freshman year English I teacher, she told me we were reading this book…

E-Reading: Jeopardizing the Humanities The evolution of technology is becoming a significant part of the education system. It is deemed to be more cost and time efficient than the standard paper and pencil tactic. Universities are more dependent on the internet for text books, journals, and scholarly articles. Although some classes benefit from this innovative strategy, others suffer. Author Naomi Baron’s article “How E-Reading Threatens Learning in the Humanities” focuses on the problematic…

Versions Many do not ponder whether or not we would trade our paper copies of books for digital versions. Yet, this is a topic that should be very relevant in a world where technology can do anything for you. Replacing paper copies of books with digital versions could come with many problems both for the author and the reader, taking away the joy from reading. Apps that sell digital books could lose a lot of money on every book they sell. Not to mention how many problems technology can come…

mother taking me to the library every Sunday for story time. One of the librarians that worked in there would read us books and then we were able to check out a book for the week. When I was younger I also had a library card that I kept in my purse. To this day my favorite book is "Brown bear Brown bear" by Bill Martin. I used to check it out all the time and even now! I bring books to work frequently and "Brown Bear Brown Bear" is one of them. I read it to my kids in hopes that I can share my…

Module 3 Discussion Question The book, The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, can be found in both print and digital edition in the collection at Trent Park Elementary. Both of the formats are able to be located through the library’s online catalog. There is a difference in the appearance, description, location and how the information about the resource is cataloged. Discovery To access both the print and digital edition of The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan, a search must be done in the library’s…

persuasive essay “Your E-Book Is Reading You,” Alexandra Alter claims that through the use of digital books, reading books is no longer a private act by consumers. According to Alter, personal reading habits can now be tracked by the publishing world; used to improve book and e-book sales; and shared semi-publicly. Alter contends that in the pre-e-book era, the literature business could not know a person’s unique reading habits (for instance, whether a consumer even finished a book he or she…