The last few e-readers I’ve reviewed have been corporate-, or at least company-created—crafted by teams of developers, with a very smooth and polished look to them and, with the exception of eReader, all relative latecomers to the iPhone platform. It’s time to switch things up and take a look at a much older, largely solo […]
iPad and elderly people
When I came across this post on Teleread I was intrigued as I have been trying to convince my grandparents to try to use a computer for some time. When I was back home for Xmas I even connected my
Chinese survey on reading – newspapers down, digital reading up
According to the Global Times, the 7th annual National Reading Survey canvassed 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and covered over 19,000 readers.
It round that newspaper reading declined 15.6 percent and paperback reading declined as well.
24.6 percent of the respondents had read digital books and 91 percent of them said that they would not […]
life without the iphone
For years I have been one of those who persisted to keep a ‘brick-phone’ in my pockets because they had a touchscreen: I just hated the tiny keypads. Sales assistants were just laughing at me when this was the only