Read an Ebook
Yesterday was “Read an Ebook Day.” An essential holiday for authors such as myself that provide an Ebook option to the print versions of our books. A small device, like your phone or tablet, can hold thousands of books, and once downloaded, there is no requirement for internet or WiFi availability to access the content. Of course, you can even read on an Ebook application on your laptop or desktop computer. For avid readers that travel, that means not loading your luggage with pounds of book weight, leaving tons of room for fun souvenirs. Sight-challenged readers can enlarge the font on their E-reader, allowing them to read previously blurred cloudy images that kept them from enjoying books. When did the concept of Ebooks emerge? Surprisingly in 1930, Bob Brown introduced this idea after watching his first talkie movie. Almost 20 years later, Angela Ruiz Robles designed an automated book reader, the Enciclopedia Mecánica. Her prototype device had graphics and texts loaded on spool...