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components they are named after, we’ll introduce them when we discuss GPS

in the upcoming “Mobile Hardware Features” section. For now we’ll look at

e-readers, which are better seen as small tablets tailored for reading.

E-readers To give the obvious definition, an e-reader is a device designed

for reading electronic books (e-books). The stereotypical e-reader uses a lowpower

grayscale screen technology called e-paper, and a simple interface

designed around obtaining e-books, navigating through them, and performing

related tasks such as highlighting, bookmarking, sharing passages, and

looking up definitions. Initially these interfaces used hardware buttons, but

over time they have shifted to touchscreen interfaces, such as the one used by

the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite in Figure 24-5.

Figure 24-5 Kindle Paperwhite e-reader

Along the way, some e-reader product lines have grown to include fullfledged

tablets. Both the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook product

lines started with simple black-and-white devices; both now include tablets

alongside the simple e-readers. While tablets are better at general computing

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