Your reading may not get lighter, but your backpack will
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Kobo e-reader.
To The Point
January 25, 2012 8:00 AM ADT
I don’t even have one, but I definitely wish I did.
E-readers are the new thing that everyone needs to get their hands on.
Recently I realized that they are something that every student should have if they’re in the arts faculty or simply enjoy reading books.
Although you lose the physical part of picking up a book and being able to flip through the pages, these devices save you money on books that you could buy at Westminster Books, Chapters, or at the UNB Bookstore for a course.
Titles like Anne of Green Gables, Pride and Prejudice, amongst a million more makes it a cheap way to get your hands on many classic books for the price of your e-reader, as they are free to download.
Although you may not be taking an English survey course where these titles are examined, you may want to do some casual reading.
Odds are you don’t have a lot of money kicking around to buy books after paying for tuition and your semesters’ worth of textbooks, so you’ll be looking to save money wherever you can.
The great thing about downloading books on your e-reader is that they are approximately 50 per cent cheaper to download then they are to buy at a bookstore.
If that doesn’t sell the e-reader to you, then I don’t know what will. (I should be working for these companies).
I just have realized that Kobo eReaders and Amazon Kindles are getting things right and moving from the print format to the digital format in an effective manner.
You can buy the Kobo eReaders for $109.99 at the low end or $199.99 for the tablet version at the higher end of the price range.
The Amazon Kindles range from $79 to $199.99 in price.
The more expensive readers have the capabilities to do more than simply hold your books, but if you want to buy a cheaper tablet than an iPad they may be more up your alley.
One final thing that is great about them is that you can search within a book. If you’re doing a paper on a certain novel, you can simply search words that are similar to your topic or search the character’s name that you’re writing about to get every section of the book the character or topic is mentioned in.
Highlighting things is also easy on an e-reader. Not only do you have the ability to find information more easily, but you can also keep track of it easier. The one downside is that if you highlight a lot of things in one book, it takes longer to load the book each time you open it.
I hope that I’ve given some great insight into how students can save money and make reading easier. Maybe I’ll save some English students from having back problems because they’ll be able to carry around all their books in a small and compact format from now on.
Christopher Cameron is the Editor-in-Chief of The Brunswickan and can be reached at editor@thebruns.ca or in SUB room 35 throughout the work week.
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