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Printed and Digital Books

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Colin Wright
Dec 19, 2024
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Ebooks have a lot of advantages over printed books, including the fact that they cost essentially nothing to reproduce and distribute, as long as the intended recipient has a device capable of displaying them.

It’s also possible to render ebooks on different sorts of screens—everything from smartphones to tablets to computers to TVs—and it’s increasingly feasible to use text-to-voice software that converts digital text into a rudimentary audiobook, so that written works can be consumed audibly by folks with eyesight issues, or by people who don’t have the time or attention-span to sit down and focus on sight-reading for long periods of time.

Ebook files, and the devices most people use to read them, have also evolved substantially over the past decade or so.

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