In today’s digital age, anything seems possible. Things that we once considered unavoidable are now simply inconveniences. In the past several years, new technology has emerged that allows individuals to carry multiple textbooks with them, in their back pocket.
Textbooks have not shrunk, rather they have been turned into digital media that can be carried on e-readers. Many websites, such as e-readers.com , note the growing craze with digital readers and how society has embraced them.
Digital readers are simply a handheld device, similar to a mobile phone, which allows users to download full print textbooks. These texts are identical to their original counter parts, except they are being read off of a digital reader.
These digital readers, depending on the size of the storage capacity, can carry anywhere from a few books to several hundred. They have revolutionized the way in which we can read books, and buy books for that matter.
Instead of having to go to the book shop to buy a new book, we can now simply download them onto our digital reader and save them. These digital readers have led to the creation of several pay-per-use websites that allow the user to download a book for a certain time period, or allow them to download certain chapters.
Digital readers have clearly revolutionized the book printing industry. Whether or not they make printing presses obsolete is yet to be seen.
