Two, it seems that iBooks is optimized for aesthetics and tries to reproduce
a paper book reading experience, whereas Kindle's iPad book reader is fairly simple and straightforward and optimized for the simple act of reading electronic text.
Not exact matches
The best ones try to replicate the
paper book experience, which is of course, the current best way to
read.
Reading on an e-reader is a different experience that reading a paper and cardboar
Reading on an e-reader is a different
experience that
reading a paper and cardboar
reading a
paper and cardboard
book.
The black - and - white
reading experience being much better than I expected, I have practically stopped
reading paper books even though a live a ten minute walk from the largest college library in the US.
What I didn't hear a whole lot about was how the
experience of
reading ebooks and
paper books compared, particularly in regard to the Kindle's frustrating
reading experience not living up to its promise.
The Kobo Aura HD
reading experience has a print - on -
paper feel that is as glare - free as any
paper book you've ever
read, but has the advantage of crisp, sharp fonts that you can adjust to suit your
reading needs.
The Sony Reader is an electronic
book reader that uses an E-Ink screen to give a
paper like
reading experience.
Front - lit displays do not resemble the natural
experience of
reading a
paper book.
Lets look at the
reading experience on the app itself, no matter what
book type you open all text is rendered on a old type
paper background called Sepia.
Kindle Paperwhite offers an unparalleled
reading experience, with a display that
reads like real
paper, an innovative built - in front light, a small and light - weight design and 8 weeks of battery life so customers can easily dive into their favorite
books.»
Kobo eReaders
reading experience has a print - on -
paper feel that's as glare - free as any
paper book you've ever
read, but has the advantages of crisp, sharp fonts you can adjust to suit your
reading needs.
Design simplicity, efficient use, the choice of millions of users: * Multiple - line stacks, hundreds of thousands of novel / newspaper / magazines free
read (Note: All stacks are built by third parties) * depth optimization of novel to
read txt * visual
experience set, all the background color to support several real - time visibility * Page mode * Smart layout, to create the most comfortable
reading experience of
paper flip effect * real * support for voice input, attack with half times * strong local
book file Find (supports wildcards to retrieve and import), a full range of
book content search (support regular expression) * free copy like text, and can be sent to microblogging — Format: TXT, HTML, EPUB, UMD, OPDS Official Website: http://anyview.net official micro-Bo: http://t.sina.com.cn/3637250 official QQ group: 161 462 668 readers, e-books
To address these issues, we saw an opportunity to partner with E Ink to use their ePaper technology to create a solution that could house an entire manga collection on one device, while preserving the
experience of
reading a
paper comic
book.»
As for my Kindle Fire, my
experience with pre-bed
reading is similar to the iPad and ink - and -
paper books.
I feel myself fortunate to be living in those times, when we have
experienced the pleasure of
reading paper books and also enjoying the eBooks.
The
experience in
reading a physical printed in
paper books are quite more extensive.
It's not the same tactile
experience one has when
reading a
paper and ink
book, but the Kindle is a great invention with many positive aspects.
The Paperwhite is Amazon's attempt to create a device that keeps
reading simple, while providing some niceties that make the
experience better than just
reading a
paper book.
Certainly a
paper book would have been a more pleasant
experience, but there were advantages to portable
reading: I could whip it out of my pocket while stuck on the bus, and
read under the covers by the greenish back - lit glow.
The reason these
books have taken so long to finally become available on the Kindle (and other e-readers) was a simple one: the author didn't want her works
read as e-
books; she preferred everyone to have the «
paper & ink»
experience.
For someone that just wants to
read ebooks and doesn't need a backlit screen, dictionary, make annotations, or go online, you know like the
experience a
paper book gives you, this actually looks like a pretty good deal.
Designed by
book lovers, the Kobo Wireless eReader offers an exceptional customer
experience featuring an eInk screen that
reads like
paper and is easy on the eyes, easy - to - use navigation with seamless page turns, and a modern design in three stylish colours — Onyx, Pearlized Lilac and Metallic Silver.
Review by: Richard Carswell on Aug. 05, 2012: This
book is a must -
read book for every Indie Author, it walks me through creating my
paper book into E-
book format, and I hope I can do better to share better
reading experience for the readers... I will give 5 stars.
I like physical
books a lot more than ebooks (I don't have a tablet or ereader so the best I can do is a laptop, which is shit compared to
paper books) so pirating ebooks would only cheapen my
reading experience, excuse the pun.
Books survived this long because
reading a
book on a computer monitor did not replicate the
experience of
reading a
book on
paper well enough to make piracy a real threat.
As Amazon continues making the Kindle
reading experience more
book - and
paper - like, it is finally approaching
paper - thinness.