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E-books & E-readers

The lowdown on the world of electronic books

So what is all the fuss about? Are the devices in this new class of electronic gadgets any good? What are the pitfalls and advantages to owning an e-book? Who makes them? Who sells them?

There are so many questions that are being thrown up for consumers in the field of electronic paper and books. A number of companies are manufacturing models with many different features and with many different arrangments as as far as actually reading something on the device.

Our e-book pages at GUB aim to try and take some of the guess work out of the equation and help you to understand what you should be looking for in an E-book. We don’t profess to know it all but we’ve done a bit of reseach that might help to point you in the right direction or at least contribute in some small way to assisting you to make the right purchase.

So, we’ve gathered below our posts about e-books to help you navigate through our thoughts and perceptions. Hope you find it useful.

We’d also love to hear from you about experiences you’ve had with e-books so please contribute in the comments section for each post or below.

Catalogue of e-book posts on Gadget User Blog

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