There is a Reader for Everyone

Kindle vs. iPad Mini - Which is Your Favorite Pick

Tech world is constantly evolving and coming up with user-friendly and revolutionary tools. It has changed almost all the aspects of life. Life became easy with the advent of computers and now the smartphones but this is not the end. The tech world is working on Augmented Reality to make the world better.

The charismatic world of books, too, has adorned a new silhouette in the tech world. It all started with Amazon’s single device, called Kindle, an e-book reader produced by Amazon.com. And now it comprises a range of devices from Kindles with keyboards, to touchscreen devices and the Kindle Fire HD tablet.

Kindle devices, known as dedicated e-book readers, come with an e-ink screen, which looks completely different to an LCD screen and functions differently too. The e-ink screen brings the reader close to a printed page.

Amazon Kindle devices enable users to shop, download, browse, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other digital media via wireless networking. Users can also store audio books and play MP3s, such as music, while they read.

Then, the tech giant, Apple introduced iPad in the tech-world.

The device transformed all the aspects of users’ lives, such as business, education, medical, finance, and entertainment and brought a fresh wave in the tech world. From the statistics you can estimate the popularity of the device among users.

With more than 300,000 apps made just for iPad, users have got everything they want in their hands. iPad offers better options to readers who are more into light reading such as, magazines, journals etc.

Although in the initial days, Kindle was the preferred device of many as iPad was heavy to carry. Since readers hold the device in front of them whenever they read from it, weight and size became the grave issues.

The launch of iPad Mini solved these two problems. Considered as the lightest eBook reader, iPad established itself as a breakthrough device. It let the readers read books, magazines, journals on the go and let them be in their comfort zone at the same time.

It comes with bright, colorful, beautiful displays. But these advantages have trade-offs. The reflective screens of the tablet make it hard to read in bright light. Using iPad for a long read is not a good idea as many people find that the backlight tires their eyes over the long reading sessions.

The shift to digital books is rising because eBook readers are easy to carry and users can access their books on multiple devices. The popularity of eBook readers and tablets is growing, however, there is, still, a section of people who like books in their original shape, who loves the musty smell of paper, these are called bibliophiles. Are you one of them?

It’s time to change your reading habit a bit, because, according to a MIT visionary, “in five years we will read almost no paper books—just digital devices. The book would become a relic, a collector's item.” Do you agree with him? Write your comments in the text box below.

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