THIRD BLOG REFLECTION

E-Books and the Tablet PC
Robert Godwin-Jones
Virginia Comonwealth University
January 2003, Volume 7, Number 1
pp. 4-8

The other day, I was commenting with a classmate that we are so used to read in paper and that we are not so accustomed to read in the computer. In the last years the use of E-Books has increased notably, with the pass of the years the amount of written material available in the internet has increased significantly.

This article makes a revision of two devices related with the reading and the computers: The E-Books and the Tablet PC. The first is related with the appearance of books in a digital format and the second with a device made to read this digital material as well as to write and interact with the texts.

These tools combined can be useful in the way a student can store big amount of information in only one source (The pc) and in the way they can interact with the text (adding notes, hyperlinks to reference works). There also some drawbacks to take into account: The texts tend to be in different formats, this could make the search for texts difficult, and the tablet pc are still very expensive.

In my opinion, these are the information sources of the following years. Year after year is more the amount of information that is available in the internet; the change from paper to digital is coming, so we just have to get used to it.

URL: http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num1/pdf/emerging.pdf