I’ve been fascinated by e-book reader devices, ever since I first saw a review for one of these devices, way back in 1998. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be presenting a look at the wonderful world of e-book readers in a 5 part series of articles.
What is an E-book reader?
The term e-book reader can refer to both software used to read electronic books or e-books to dedicated hardware devices for reading e-books. I will be largely focusing on the dedicated hardware devices for reading e-books and not on the software used. The evolution of the software and file formats used for e-books is in itself equally interesting and deserves much more attention.
In its simplest form an e-book reader had a screen for displaying the text of the e-book, buttons to move forward, backward in the book and to access device functions. To a large extent this basic design is still seen in most e-books today, though gradually touch screens where gestures achieve the same function as buttons, seem to be catching on.
I will touch on the specific technology that goes into making e-books a bit later. For now, let’s look at the interesting history of e-book reader devices.
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I'm Elroy Serrao, a technologist, photographer, and part time blogger from India.
I love to design web sites, program in php and rails in my free time and of course go trekking and clicking pictures in the great outdoors.
I'm from Mumbai, and am an alumnus of Mumbai University and NMIMS. 
