E-Book
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E-Book
(Electronic-Book) The electronic counterpart of a printed book, which can be viewed on a desktop computer, laptop, smartphone or e-book reader. E-books are highly mobile, as a large number of texts can be stored in portable units, dramatically eliminating weight and volume compared to paper. Electronic bookmarks are used for referencing, and e-book readers may allow the user to annotate pages[1].
Formats Available
There are many competing formats for e-books, including Adobe PDF (.pdf), Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket Reader (.prc), EPUB (.epub), and Amazon Kindle proprietary format (.azw). Apple's iPad has an iBooks application ("app") for viewing e-books in the EPUB format.
All e-book formats have a search capability, but most do not support a direct dictionary lookup, which means if a person looks up the term "network," all the definitions that contain the word "network" are retrieved rather than the single definition of that term. The results are akin to the mountain of results retrieved by a search engine.
