E-Reading Grows; Paper Declines

The amount of time people spend reading on screen has now grown to be equal to the amount of time spent reading on paper. That's milestone that surely marks the way to the future. Ultimately we can rest assured that the reading of anything on paper will become a curiosity.

E-readers like Kindle really got the ball rolling, when it introduced the use of e-Ink, which replicates the paper experience - or attempts to. It is still a hard and inflexible tool, and the industry recognizes that newer flexible media are needed to advance the replication. Prototypes of such devices are being developed.

The advent of tablet computers is probably the biggest event to advance e-reading. These small devices are ideally suited to reading  not just books, but any kind of document. That makes them ideal for containing meeting agendas, course materials and innumerable other documents that people need to read while not necessarily having access to a traditional computer.

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