Sentences with phrase «tablets than reading»

Whenever I'm in an airport or any place else where people read, I more people these days reading on tablets than reading actual printed books.

The Remarkable has a 10.3 - inch E Ink screen and it supports ePub and PDF formats, but it continues to remain more of a writing tablet than a reading device.

In 2012, while 5 times as many people read on tablets than read on ereaders, 40 times more were reading on phones!

Not exact matches

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.

And people who read it on their tablet are spending 20 % more time than if they're reading the paper.

All in all, for people who prefer to read their e-books on «old - fashioned» e-ink devices rather than tablets, there's no doubt the Kindle Touch is the cream of the crop.

Hopefully my 7 ″ tablet will arrive this week and that will make reading eBooks just a little easier than with the laptop.

I'm hoping I can finish «Natural Hospital Birth» before the end of the month, but I'm finding out that if I have 5 minutes to sit down with my Intel Tablet that I am much more likely to try to catch up on emails than I am to read a book.

Between smartphones, tablets, ebook readers, and, of course, desktop and laptop computers, you may read online more often than off.

With tablets, smartphones, social media status updates and friends» timelines to read, parents are more distracted than ever before.

If you've ever noticed that reading a book feels more satisfying than reading a tablet, you're not imagining things.

It's smaller than a tablet and lights up in the dark so he can read without a flashlight.

For example, a tablet may be a more effective tool to foster children's letter shaping... Alternatively, reading a paper - printed storybook may be better at fostering aspects of emergent literacy than reading an e-book on a tablet due to an app's distracting features.»

The figures above are daunting when you consider that an increase in smartphone and tablet usage is causing children to be less able to read emotions and be less empathetic than ever.

The Nook Tablet's product page says it can access «thousands» of apps, which, reading around the marketing speak, means decidedly less than 10,000.

While I have finally given in to owning a tablet with ebooks on it, I still enjoy owning and reading real books more than ebooks.

Kobo has designed a way to provide stores with dedicated tracking links for downloads of the Kobo Reading App, so customers who read eBooks on devices other than eReaders can purchase books through smartphones, computers, and tablets and have them credited to the store.

Data from the RJI Mobile Media News Consumption Survey finds an average of 14 % of smartphone owners use them to read books, versus 41 % using tablets for reading, three times greater than on smartphones.

I ordered this tablet for reading because it had a full HD screen and it was cheaper than the iPad Mini, but I was about to get the iPad Mini until I saw this tablet.

The iPad on the other hand is more of a tablet rather than an eBook reader although it can read multiple files and view them through a colored screen.

This is one of the main reasons this new Asus tablet has managed to sell for # 70 less than the new Nexus 7 — read our Nexus 7 2 vs Nexus 7 comparison to see how the two differ.

There has been strong demand for the tablet, which is either much more than the company had... [Read more...]

Among the students who opt to use tablets for something other than reading when given the chance, would those students really read a book if they were provided with a print edition, or would they simply shun the activity altogether in favor of something they found more entertaining?

An app looks very good on a tablet device, rather than having to read through browser.

This data, compiled in part from its 6,500 public school library partners, shows that more students than ever before are using smartphones, tablets, and ereaders in the academic... [Read more...]

Also, they are generally much lighter than tablets making them easier to hold for those long reading sessions.

I read on a less than 6 inch phone screen or a 7 inch tablet and don't have problems with either, in fact, you might even say «it feels natural».

The tablet has also been ruggedized enough to take on the rigors of daily usage better than any other mainstream tablet... [Read more...]

Sure, the Kindles and Nooks and others were all very portable with their 6 - inch screens, but I had already concluded that reading on my 8 - inch tablet was far more pleasant than reading on my 5.7 - inch smartphone.

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 tablets.

The huge majority of tablet and iPad users say they find screen reading either easier than reading printed text (52 percent) or about the same (42 percent).

I really wanted to get the fire for my 9 yr old she loves reading books on my iphone (kindle app) Not to mention the games ans so on, ir keps her from getting into fights with her younger sister in the car, but now i am considering the nook just because the parental controls, i am worried i can not keep an eye on her while driving plus things can find her quicker than she can find things, lets face it shes an innocent 9 yr old so why risk it, i know she wont go looking for porn or whatever but when she was younger she was looking for a hello kitty web site and we were both horriefied what came on the screen, so i huess the debate is nook color or nook tablet

The catch here is that multipurpose devices like tablets and smartphones are usually less suited for e-book reading than the dedicated e readers.

Now, in addition to its catalogue of 4 million books, Kobo has built in integrations with Pocket, new reading - focused storefronts (starting with a store for children's books and one for magazines), and two new Android feautures, a launcher Kobo calls «Reading Life» and a new Reading Mode, both designed to put reading front and center on tablets more than it has ever been done on tablets reading - focused storefronts (starting with a store for children's books and one for magazines), and two new Android feautures, a launcher Kobo calls «Reading Life» and a new Reading Mode, both designed to put reading front and center on tablets more than it has ever been done on tablets Reading Life» and a new Reading Mode, both designed to put reading front and center on tablets more than it has ever been done on tablets Reading Mode, both designed to put reading front and center on tablets more than it has ever been done on tablets reading front and center on tablets more than it has ever been done on tablets before.

The Kindle Fire is, to its roots, an e-book reader, so if you are willing to buy a tablet for the reading purpose you should go with the Kindle as it also a good tablet with the features of a good e-book reader.But if you are going for screen resolution then i pad 2 is better option rather than kindle fire hd, As the market sort of pupose Kindle fire and i pad 2 both are useful in its own scenario.

Whether consumers are reading — rather than watching TV on their tablet or playing a video game on their TV — is what really matters.

But most Germans read on tablets rather than ereaders.

That said, it still shares many of the downsides if you primarily intend to use it for reading: these tablets are more expensive, bigger, thicker, heavier, and more complicated than e-ink readers, and they have less - readable LCD screens and much worse battery life.

SEATTLE --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Oct. 24, 2017 --(NASDAQ: AMZN)-- Today, Amazon announced an all - new Kindle app that makes it easier than ever to turn your phone or tablet into a book — so you can read anytime, anywhere.

They are also more active tablet users in general; they are heavier news consumers, more likely to read in - depth articles and more satisfied with their tablet news experience - even to the point of saying the content they get here is worth more than content on other platforms.

Reading is so much better on an ereader than a tablet or cell phone.

So far in 2013, Kobo's customers, either on smartphone, laptop, tablet, desktop computer, or eReading devices, have turned more than 1.3 - billion pages, logging more than 10 - million hours of reading time in the process.

If you think that most ebook reading is taking place on smartphones or tablets rather than an e-reader... this can indeed be a long battle.

Among Americans who read e-books, those under 30 are more likely to read them on a cell phone, at 41 percent, or on a computer (55 percent) than on an e-book reader (23 percent) or tablet (16 percent).

Unsurprisingly, the rise in tablet and e-reader ownership, Pew says, has had a direct impact on how many people are turning to e-books rather than printed books when it comes to reading.

Tablets have become a handy companion if you want something larger than your phone for watching video, reading news or eBooks, or even keeping the children occupied with games and learning apps.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 is 8 ″ in size, which makes it easier to use than a 10 ″ tablet, but it also offers plenty of space to browse and read on it.

Way better for reading than using a tablet.

When reading an ebook, the Kindle Fire's background is noticeably whiter than the Nook Tablet's, both indoors and outdoors.

And even with a 10.3 - inch screen that's wonderfully spacious for reading, the tablet feels much lighter than an iPad, thanks to an aluminum back panel that also adds rigidity.