Sentences with phrase «as reading devices become»

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

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«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.

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.

«As the Kindle, Nook, iPads and other reading devices become more and more popular, libraries have become the best resource for free downloadable books,» said Mary Jean Jakubowski, director, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System.

And as we write less and become more dependent on electronic devices, the researchers wonder about the implications for reading.

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As people become more comfortable reading textbooks, magazines and newspapers on tablets (as many already have), they won't want to carry multiple devices around with them just so they can have a marginally better reading experience than the ever improving competing display technologies on tabletAs people become more comfortable reading textbooks, magazines and newspapers on tablets (as many already have), they won't want to carry multiple devices around with them just so they can have a marginally better reading experience than the ever improving competing display technologies on tabletas many already have), they won't want to carry multiple devices around with them just so they can have a marginally better reading experience than the ever improving competing display technologies on tablets.

That still only represents 11 per cent of overall library use, she added, but demand continues to grow as more digital content becomes available and more people have devices like e-readers and tablets to read it on.

Becoming a user of both has helped me understand the mentality of book readers today, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of reading on these devices.

«As smart devices continue to change shape and become increasingly smaller, Spritz enables users to read comfortably and conveniently.

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«With eReader sales expected to continue to climb and as more devices now become available, it is inevitable that reading habits of Americans will also change,» reads a note accompanying the results.

In any case, the reason for the rise in e-reader usage or e-book readership could be attributed partly to the lowering of price as well, as it becomes cost effective for individuals to carry small devices containing almost all the reading material they would need.

• «As iPads and other devices become more versatile and popular, more people are playing games or watching videos, rather than buying and reading e-books,» says Michael Norris, an analyst with Simba Information, a market research firm.

I want to read «my» books on other devices so this is very frustrating and I refuse to buy a kindle just to read (when my other tablets are quite capable) Still, I will wait for a new way of stripping the DRM, as I know many people are becoming infuriated at this rip - off!

As more variety becomes available in readable formats that can be read across several devices, more international readers are likely to turn to digital and demand that the market keep up.

While digital reading has become such a common part of the American landscape that consumers are now reading on a wide variety of portable devices, there are still portions of the reading world where digital publishing is not as accessible as the consumers hope.

Though there were others before it and others since (such as the Barnes & Noble Nook), the Kindle reading device has, for many, become a prominent device standard.

But this naturally Times - centric report kind of dilutes the significant of such a device: Amazon will likely carry titles from a vast number of news providers, and if the E ink experience becomes enough like newspaper reading — in term of news choice as well as literal usability — then this product could represent the newspaper and magazine industries» first financially viable step away from dead trees.

A visit to the Seoul Book Fair reveals publishers are still wary of ebooks and blame smart devices for the decline in reading, even as Korean culture has become hip abroad.

As the adoption of tablets and mobile devices for reading and consuming entertainment in all forms continues to skyrocket, it's likely that book trailers will become a popular tool in creating an experience within book apps and interactive reading experiences.

And because of this ebooks format issue becomes painful precisely as different reading devices has their own main supported formats.

However, Gartner believes that it is too early in the evolution of the e-reading market to know whether smartphones will become powerful stand - alone devices for reading books or whether they will complement other devices, such as fixed readers.

Since I have bought the Macbook Air, I do not use a tablet for meetings as much anymore, it has become more of an entertainment device from which I watch movies in my bed or in the plane, read news and books, play with apps (ie Angry Birds, Music apps), Skype / chat with friends, check Facebook updates, play music on a mini Bluetooth speaker.

eReader is the name of a software reader originally used on Palm devices, but as eBook Readers become main stream products the term eReader (e-reader) has become a generic term for hardware used to read eBooks.

It has become my main mobile media device, for getting news, reading books (including Kindle files), and watching movies in particular, plus as an occasional email and social - media connector.

They don't act as tracking devices but they will provide a permanent identification in case your pets lose their collars or the information on their ID tags becomes impossible to read.

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It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.