Sentences with phrase «as reading devices»

(If you mainly plan on reading, the high - contrast, higher - resolution e-ink screen on one of Amazon's Kindle models makes those better as reading devices.)

No problem, says the United States Navy as it introduces an e-reader for sailors that can be used as reading devices while they are out at sea.

I've got a Nook Color, generic Android tablet, and little Android player as reading devices, but nothing Kindle.

As reading devices get more complex, ebooks will change as well.

And, as reading devices become more sophisticated, it will be an increasingly important drawcard for readers, too.

With the proliferation of eReader devices, tablets, and phones all being using as reading devices, I thought it would be helpful to take a look at media queries and how you can apply them to ePUBs.

And for single - use, high - price devices such as the higher - end ereaders, growth is certain to slow in the coming years as tablets and the larger smartphones gain popularity as reading devices, as well.

A point made in the abstract is likely to be forgotten as soon as the reading device is turned off.

I was pretty happy with my iPhone as a reading device until I got the nook and made a hugely important discovery.

The kindle is great as a reading device just for books.

During the course of this review, we will primarily look at the Z10 as a reading device, evaluate the content distribution system, and look at some of the new features.

Quickreader is definitely geared toward people who use their iPhone or iPad as a reading device.

Warning: Features a hero who's Tall, Dark, and Possessive, and may melt your heart as well as your reading device.

Warning: Contains a hero who's Tall, Dark, and Possessive, and may melt your heart as well as your reading device.

The iPad works very, very well as a reading device.

Perhaps the device's biggest weakness as a reading device is that it does so many other things: it's hard to resist the lure of temptation that your e-mail — and the baseball game, and Netflix movies, and Flight Control HD, and Twitter — are all just a couple taps away.

And make no mistake: Google is selling this as a reading device, adding magazines to Google Play and touting its bookstore as «the world's largest ebook collection.»

Articles focused on the latter only highlight Kindle's suitability as a reading device.

Readers save their genre preferences as well as reading device preferences so our daily newsletter is extremely targeted, and the books we feature sell lots of copies.

I bought a Kindle not long ago, and have come to like it as a reading device.

Well, I can't say I'm shocked, since the whole iBook Store and marketing of the iPad as a reading device never seemed sincere to me.

Most people agree that a dedicated e-paper reader is far better as a reading device but tablets are obviously much more versatile.

«Newsstand: A failed attempt at digital downsizing... [but] For every sin it commits as a reading device, the Fire atones with a good deed in video playback,» writes Jon Phillips at Wired.

Our review concluded that the Kindle 3 was certainly usable as a reading device, but still needed some work in order to be considered a viable solution for students and professionals.

The Sony Reader is designed primarily as a reading device, not a full - featured music player.

If you decide to commit to buying a Apple iPad as a reading device for business, home or holidays you can combine functionality and style with an iPad cover or case.

As a reading device, magazine and books look equally good on the Fire HD and Nook HD, but you'll be happier holding the much lighter Nook HD for longer.

I bought my first iPad a couple of years ago as a reading device, and so I could write when I was out of the office.

Some people use their Kindle just as a reading device, others use it as a shared family device and there are those who use it as a laptop.

Most people agree that a dedicated e-paper reader is far better as a reading device (because of the screen quality, sunlight readability, weight, cost and battery life)- but Tablets are obviously much more versatile.

Since the proportion of the population that owns a tablet is getting bigger every year, as we can see in Figure 3,18 I do not think we should neglect the tablet as a reading device.

Apple's iPad has also caught on quickly as a reading device, selling more than 100 million e-books since it was introduced about a year ago.

While it makes sense for Amazon to want to capitalize on the popularity of the Kindle line by including the new tablet in it, it remains important for people to realize the things that the Kindle Touch will do better as a reading device.

Not exact matches

As everybody buries their nose in their smart phone or other devices, the number of people who read a physical newspaper is dwindling.

«There are two ways to connect a car: There's the original telemetry readings, but the new phase, now that we have 4G is infotainment devices, and the vehicle as a hotspot,» says Larry Zibrik, vice-president of Market Development at Sierra Wireless, a Vancouver - based company that's become a global leader in the modules that allow machines to communicate over cellular networks.

Customers buy three to four times as many books after they buy the Kindle device... That's such a remarkable increase in the amount of book purchasing, it seems pretty likely to be an increase in the rate of which people buy books [over all]... I hear this from people every day, that they're actually recapturing minutes of the day for reading.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

As sophisticated electronic devices make reading onscreen not just convenient but comfortable, paper seems unnecessary, even obsolete, a harmful indulgence like plastic bags or incandescent light bulbs.

Already, Qualcomm (QCOM) and Intel (INTC) have introduced new biometic security technology that would use readings from the human body — such as a fingerprint or a facial reading — to allow access to devices instead of traditional passwords.

Gaming is about to break down the barriers between the real world and fantasy, thanks to devices that will read your thoughts, gestures, and expressions; project gaming action onto the streets around you; and populate these quasi-real worlds not only with your distant gaming buddies but with characters that seem as real and wily as Ben from Lost.

And that has left Emotiv with a challenge every bit as big as conquering mind reading: figuring out how to present its breakthrough device to the world in a way that will transform it from a slightly scary gadget to the next must - have consumer technology.

Monga says that there's a clear market opportunity for an enterprise - oriented tablet, not just for e-mail and the reading and editing of documents, but as a key presentation device with the advent of pico projectors.

«And that unique offering is really important to us as publishers, because we want consumers to have all options to read e-books, and not necessarily have to purchase a $ 300 device.»

According to reports, distractions such as using mobile devices, reading, using the GPS, and passenger interaction contributed to about 1,600 crashes.

Flipboard's recent difficulties underscore how much the market has changed since 2010, when Flipboard's app seemed revolutionary as a way to read news on a tablet or mobile device.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

That same year, Shockley and seven other scientists founded Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the «first silicon device and research manufacturing company in Silicon Valley,» as a plaque marking the spot in Mountain View reads today.

That way, you can use the ellipsis as a device that makes the user want to read more.

Just as the digital information stored on a disc is useless without a device for reading the disc, so too is the information on DNA useless without the cell's information - processing system.

One need only read the story of Abigail to see that then, as now, many a wife and mother had the brains and character of the family and by one device or another successfully expressed them.