Ebooks: Changing the dimension of reading

Anish Raj Shrestha

A handful of book is very hard to handle and carry, a good book can be hostile carrying for a long time, then what if a 1000 books has to be carried, is it possible for a men? Answer would be no, if we were some 50 yrs. ago but since were are at this time it just normal, but make sure that one must have eBook reader in his gadget. Then the world of book is yours now.

eBooks are the digital version or the electronic version of the books, copied from the printed book or can be eversion too. Viewing into the website eBook is defined as, “An eBook is an electronic version of a traditional print book that can be read by using a personal computer or by using an eBook reader.”

The thousands of online bookstore, free eBooks have settled the transportation cost to visit bookstore and can visit thousand book sites and read thousand books with the simple click and touch.nal print book that can be read by using a personal computer or by using an eBook reader.”

With the visionary project called “Project Gutenberg” launched by Michael hart in 1971 AD to create the electronic version of literary works and other books to read worldwide started the era of eBooks. The text#1 of that project is first eBook. Since the Amazon.com start selling the eBooks becoming the first online books store  started the era of commercial eBooks.

With the use of Internet the world has became small village, now the people started publishing their own books and sell them in eversion with no need of publishers. This also helped the people in rural places or people from far places to study books, and this has broadened the horizon of the book and book reading habits. With the technological advancement now the reader and the writer can exchange the feedback easily. One can search the books one like to read in the search engine and can find the books staying at room/bathroom/balcony or in the roof or can even read the downloaded version in absence of the Internet too.

People in the least development countries like Nepal and especially the rural areas of it are having an advantage to read the world renown books in their farm and barn. Similarly the world can be fascinated with the books published by such people with the help of Internet and eBooks. People have started to publish only electronic version of the books these days with no hardcopy. So, the eBooks have changed the spectrum of publishing, reading, viewing and selling of the books. So the bookstores also have changed their module of selling and publishing the books. But there are few who do so. But with this invent has affected the bookstore very much; online piracy, hacking, and even the less demand of the printed books. Paper factory are also been affected with it. But nevertheless the inventions of the computer, laptop, tablets, smartphone and kindles have made people synchronize their life and study in one small area.