Their has been much debate on how cyber culture especially cyber text will lead to the end of physical books and new visual technologies will lead to more newer and better way of carrying books. A few weeks ago Amazon, the online bookstore had come with an innovative ideal of storing books – the name of the device is know as Kindle which is basically a e-book reader, where people can store their books and read them whenever and however they want them to read. A similar kind of gadget is also available from Sony, called the sony reader. These technologies and improvements in screen technologies have long since being promising to change the way we read.
But till now not much has happened in terms of what can be gained from these devices, as they are not suitable in one way or another – like the resolution of the flickering of the screen, etc. Hypertext and the ability to navigate from one point to another in a synch and without any hassles unlike physically books have added to the appeal of devices that could replace books. However these devices and techniques are far from fruitions and will take many more time for them to become practical and have broad appeal among both the techies and not techies.
Links:
www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/upa_voice/volumes/5/issue_1/ebooks.htm
blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/11/18/amazon_will_launch_kindle_ebook_reader_on_monday.html
scobleizer.com/
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