Sentences with phrase «e-books on a desktop computer»

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Many public libraries already offer e-book borrowing for free, subject to a library user loading special software on a desktop computer, mobile device or some e-book readers.

A majority of e-book readers say they read e-books on an e-reader or tablet, and fewer do any e-book reading on a desktop or laptop computer.

By contrast, whites tend to turn to a range of digital devices when reading e-books: 13 % read e-books on cellphones, but 18 % read e-books on tablet computers, 10 % use e-book readers and 11 % engage with e-book content on desktop or laptop computers.

Yet e-book readers under age 30 are actually less likely than older e-book readers to own e-readers, and instead consume their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer (55 %) or cell phone (41 %).

Among desktop or laptop owners who read an e-book in the past year, 31 % say they read e-books on their computer (down from 45 % in 2011); only 9 % say they do so at least weekly.

In fact, a majority of e-book readers under age 30 consume their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer; the second most popular method is by cell phone (41 % read their e-books this way).

The relative popularity of personal computers compared with newer e-reading devices meant that as many e-book readers did their reading on desktops and laptops as on e-readers like Kindles or Nooks.5

The e-books borrowed from libraries can be read on any Kindle device or on desktop and handheld computers running the Kindle e-reading app, Amazon.com said.

While Google trumpets the ability to read e-books from its new e-bookstore in any web browser or multiple other devices, Kindle e-books can now be read on a Kindle, in a web browser, on a desktop or laptop Mac or PC computer, any iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad), Blackberries, or any Android smartphone.

BISG's Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading survey also looks at genre preferences, revealing that nonfiction genres, notably how - to guides / manuals and scientific / medical / technical titles, are generally preferred by respondents who read e-books on desktop, laptop, or netbook computers.

It would be interesting to see how many people read e-books on their portable or even desktop computers.

Every e-book I own lives multiple lives, on my desktop computer hard drive, on the backup drive that protects said desktop, and eventually on a backup DVD optical disk.

This might be because, as previously noted, owners of e-reading devices are less likely than all e-book readers to read their e-books on a desktop or laptop computer — and those who primarily read their e-books on a computer may not consider this arrangement to be as convenient for pre-bedtime reading as those who rely on their (more portable) dedicated e-reading devices.

The Kindle e-book software is available for nearly all mobile devices, making it simple for customers to read books on an Apple iPad, Amazon Kindle, Google Android phone as well as a desktop computer.

And forget about e-book reader software on your desktop and notebook computers too.

I think this shows there is a need for more user - friendly ways to read e-books on hand - held devices like tablets or e-book readers in preference to desktop or laptop computers.8

The new technologies — the personal computers, personal digital assistants, scanners on every desktop, e-books — all promised to eliminate the need for paper in our lives.