Have you ever used eBook before? I think everybody in our class should use at least one or two times unconsciously. “An eBook is an electronic book, one you read digitally on your computer, laptop screen or on devices called ebook readers.”[1] It becomes more and more popular in our society. Therefore, it’s our responsibility to know more about eBook.
eBook has many formats, such as Adobe, HTML, Microsoft LIT, Hiebook-KML. Adobe is the most popular format that people are using. We can download Adobe free from http://www.adobe.com . After download the program, we can search any books that we want to read from internet.
There are some advantages of using eBook. First, using eBook is very convenience. eBook can be purchased on CD or diskette. However, the most popular way to get eBook is from internet. To download most of the eBook only takes five minutes or less. Second, using eBook is friendly for the environment. People can store several book contents on a CD or a diskette. However, it is necessary to cut the tree in order to make paper books and people should have a big space to store all the paper books. Not only that, eBook is easy to read. People who use the eBook can adjust the text size and font face from their computers. If the readers do not like to read from the screen, they can also print out and read it on paper.
Even though there are many advantages of using eBook, there are still some disadvantages. For example, eBook format required special program; therefore, people should download the program before reading eBook. However, it’s not a big problem because we can download the program easily from the internet.
Resource:
What is an eBook? : http://www.atlanticbridge.net/publishing/otherresources/whatis.htm
Let go and try eBook!!!!Here’s the video about how to download eBook. Hopefully, you can get some tips from it.
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2 comments:
Hi Zheng:
Thanks for your insightful posting. I read your posting with great interest, may be because I was trying to post an insightful comment.
Anyway, I agree with what you have said about the e-Book. I am personally not a big fan of reading books. And that is because of the problem of carrying a book and read. For some reason I found that it is lot easier to do things online (things that can be done in online). Your point about reading books online is a perfect example of that. That’s why I am always interested in reading books, newspapers, journal, and articles online. I give you a recent example. When I purchased my financial calculator, I could have read the manual to understand how the functions work. Instead, I have downloaded an electronic copy of the manual and read it; and that’s how I learnt its functionality. Some people might find it odd though. But to me it is lot easier to follow. Sometimes I don’t find those manuals handy and hate to read those tiny fonts, which I have trouble with.
My point is here flexibility and easiness of online material, which I don’t find in a paper copy. If you have an e-copy saved on your computer it saves your time. You can easily search something with the search option, you don’t have to carry a physical copy of the book, you can save it in your computer, you can change the font size and format as you want, and finally you can share it with anyone.
The format options that you provided are familiar to me and to the most people, I believe. However, I didn’t quite understand the term Microsoft LIT and Hiebook- KML. Would you please explain that? I also agree with your list of drawbacks about e-books. Well, everything has positive and negative sides. We have to see the pay-off. If we sacrifice enjoying some facilities, what things are we getting in exchange of that give up? I hope you understood my point. Please ask for clarification if you don’t.
Thanks for the learning video! Hope to get your reply soon …
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