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yet grasp the German reader, and most prefer the printed book, but in the past year, the share of e-books has tripled in the book market. We have tested the holiday as a proven handy electronic reader.
MAGDI ABOUL-KHEIR | 01.10.2013
e-reader with backlighting are also outdoors, in bright light, very well readable. Photo: Oliver Schulz
resistance. He also weighed significantly less than usual – three to four kilos. So much else to bring the five or six thick novels on the scale that takes Monika Tuckinger on holiday. This summer, she instead grabbed its first e-book reader, a who weighs just 200 grams with protective wallet 350: as much as a paperback
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was Monika Tuckinger for SOUTHWEST PRESS an ideal e-reader as a real person test bookworm. Three weeks beach holiday in Turkey, which meant that the 47-year-old always been to haul an overweight suitcase. This year, she decided to buy a Kindle Paperwhite, since this loud advertising is legible mature loud tests and also in the sunlight. “That is not promised too much,” concludes the Ulmerin, “even at the beach in the brightest light I can read well, as also reflected nothing.”
But back to the beginning: before the holidays. 189 euros paid Tuckinger for the reader, as they are the more expensive option Paperwhite Kindle 3G chose to leave with the also download books on the go. The standard version costs 129 euros, who has home-Fi and there’s loads reader is therefore already well served. In operation, the device could take quickly and easily: Tuckinger could as on the Reader Amazon customer simply log on to your account
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There followed the first book purchase in the online shop. “If you know what you are looking for, which is pretty easy,” says Tuckinger. “You can search by author or title that works well.” You can also browse, but that makes less fun than the store: “In the bookstore you get a very different impression of a book when you can take it in hand and browse.”
holiday reading they bought Timur Vermes “He’s back” (14.99 euros), Erika Pluhar’s “Shadows of Time” (14.99 euros), Thomas Mann’s “Doctor Faustus” (10.99 euros) and in English Ian McEwan ” Sweet Tooth “(6.01 euros) and Joanne Rowling” The Cockoos Calling “(15.95 euros). Five novels for around 63 euros – on paper they would have paid almost 78 euros. “The e-book prices are based on the normal retail prices of books. One, two euro but they are usually at least cheaper,” Tuckinger observed. And: “If a book appears in paperback, even the e-book is immediately accordingly cheaper.”
purchase and download of e-books worked “really well and very quickly.” And you can easily put an entire library in your pocket: Of the 2 GB of internal memory available for media 1.25GB available, equivalent to more than 1000 books
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selection in our online shop is great: “Over 2 million books, newspapers and magazines, including current bestsellers” advertises Amazon. In fact, last year 54 percent of the approximately 80 000 new publications were available on the German book market for e-readers. 84 percent of publishers are already selling e-books or plan to enter the market.
Amazon Prime Tuckinger customer also has access to the Kindle lending library. So that it can be noisy advertising “rent every month free of charge and without any return period one of hundreds of thousands of books, including 12 000 E-Books in German language, current and former bestsellers from the Kindle store and all seven volumes of the Harry Potter series.” The Potter saga but it has already read, and otherwise their experience with the lending library are disappointing, “Good scrap, barely usable I have found nothing there, which is somehow relevant or interested me..” In the case actually applies: “What costs nothing is worth nothing.”
tests certify the Kindle, now to be completely mature – that can confirm after three weeks holiday Monika Tuckinger. The device fits with its 17 times 12 centimeters in any pocket. The battery hold “is not endless, but in everyday life is quite enough.” Above all, convince the reading experience: “The writing is excellent, the contrasts are great.” In addition, you can change line spacing and margins, fonts and choose between six mainly eight font sizes. “Especially for older people – or anyone else with bad eyes – this is a huge advantage over the book really great.”
Ans leaves by wiping had to get used Tuckinger: “As you can sweep a quick little side too much further.” Otherwise, control is simple: You can jump between chapters or highlighted passages. And thanks to the “time to read” that is based on the individual reading speed appears you how long it will take to read a chapter or the whole book to end. If you connect the Reader, it is after opening on the same page.
notable example is Monika Tuckinger who likes to read books in foreign languages, the simple link with dictionaries: When a word is not known about in the novels Rowling and McEwan, they highlighted it and has the meaning of a finger, tap the Oxford Dictionary – the basics is – look up. “A great feature.” Only there are books by far not in all languages ??to buy, regrets the Ulmerin. She speaks and reads Swedish and Dutch, but e-books in these languages ??are not yet on sale on Amazon.
Crashedyou never had the electronic device – whether and how sensitive it is, she has not found out or need to find out. A protective cover is always useful, “you have the thing anyway so do not throw in the sand or in the sea.”
the loungers on the beach and by the pool were to see many e-readers, reported Tuckinger. No wonder: the share of e-books on the book market in 2012 has tripled, rising from 0.8 to 2.4 percent. 13.2 million digital books have been sold.
Tuckinger perceives as the annoying advertising e-mails with which they now happily Amazon: “Constant is something I rate or review It is really trashed..” But the e-mails you may unsubscribe.
changeto complete e-book it is not. “I’d rather spend my money on real books than for data from 30 euros for a new bound novel that I ever put out -.. But not necessarily for a file” Their conclusion: The Kindle was a “great addition and when traveling for the holidays, it is ideal..”
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