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While carrying your heavy schoolbag on the way to school or home,does it make you lose your interest in knowledge?Don't worry and you may soon be able to say goodbye to your heavy schoolbag.Instead of burying your face in textbooks,newspapers,magazines and novels,you could find that the e-book reader fits all in one.
An e-book reader is a new invention,which can hold thousands of texts and display them as real text printed on a paper page.Sony and IRex Technologies are among the first to produce and sell e-book readers.The new device (装置.is expected to hit stores in a few months.
In the same way that the iPod has changed the way people enjoy music,e-book readers could change the way that books are both bought and read.
The size of an e-book reader is the same as that of real books.Its screen is different from that of a computer.It is as thin as piece of paper.The words in the e-book's screen look exactly the same as words on real pages.But you can do more with an e-book reader than you can with an ordinary book.The reader can change the size of the words and connect with the internet to download new books.
The e-book reader is also expected to have a function that lets you play MP3music while you are reading.
Book publishers have begun to produce books that can be bought and downloaded to the new e-book devices.One of the publishers has already changed more than 3000of different kinds of books into the digital format(数码格式.and there are already large numbers of books and stories on the devices.
88.When can people buy the newly-invented e-book readers?Inafewmonths.
89.What can people use iPod for?Enjoying music
90.How big is an e-book reader?The size of an e-book reader is the same as that of real books
91.The words on the e-book reader look different from those on real pages,don't they?Yes,they do.
92.Why did one publisher change over 3000books into the digital format?Because they want to produce more books that can be bought and downloaded to the newe-book devices.
93.What do you think of an e-book reader?(此题3分.It is convenient.