Abstract
The paper explores the increasing relevance and impact of the act of electronic reading in the context of what it means to those who do not possess either the desire or the ability, or both, to develop any kind of a proclivity towards what some consider to be newfangled technology that tries too much. In the light of rapid growth in the consumption of electronic literature and information, this paper examines the sense of comfort that is still widely felt with tangible texts. Understanding this shift in the aesthetic of the book-form is critical in comprehending the corresponding shift in a mass perspective as well; that of seeing the book as an object in a highly different light. In order to explore this grand question, trends of purchases of e-books and e-readers, user opinions on forums, feasibility, and ease of access of different electronic reading formats, economic costs of commitment to electronic reading, and the practices of simply the varying acts of reading themselves, such as ergonomics and convenience to name two, all contribute towards this understanding of this dichotomy of the act of reading.
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Theme
Publishing Practices: Past, Present, and Future, Reading, Writing, Literacy, and Learning
KEYWORDS
"Reading", " e-Learning", " Formats", " Mobile Devices"
Digital Media
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