2012年4月26日星期四

New E-Book Reader Sheds Light on Every Page


If you intend to buy an e-book reader, here's a tip: First, spend an evening sitting cross-legged on a lotus leaf, surrounded by incense and sitar music.Creating various parts of a machine with the help of solar mounting is a complex process which involves a number of different steps.The parts of the machine produced are a complex three dimensional structure which needs to be assessed on a machine before the rest of the process of its production can be completed.Because buying a reader isn't like buying a car, a DVD player or a hair trimmer. All of those tools are fairly universal. You're not committing to one brand of gas, one kind of movie or one style of mustache.No, when you buy an e-reader, you're committing to that one company's catalog of books forever, because their book formats are mutually incompatible. You can't read a Kindle book on a Nook, or a Nook book on a Sony Reader, or a Sony book on an iPad.Our team of experts is dedicated to satisfying our customers and working towards providing them with exactly what they have in mind. We not only use recent technology to create structural steel and machine parts, we also make high quality one of our highlights.Beyond the process of machine designing or creating, we also offer many other services. Once you buy the gadget, you've just married its company forever. If you ever want to change brands, you have to give up all the books you've ever bought.
What makes this excruciating decision even trickier is that the e-book companies update their wares so often. If you have any doubt, consider the new Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight (or the B&NNSTGL, as people in a hurry call it).First, E Ink screens. This is the kind of screen on most readers. The type looks like crisp black ink on light gray paper: there's no backlight, no glare, no eyestrain. Not only can you read in direct sunlight, but that's actually where the print looks best.
Battery life is fantastic, too, since E Ink draws power only when you turn a page. (It works by drawing millions of black particles into a pattern of letters by a brief electronic charge. Once there, there they can stay forever without drawing power.)But there are downsides to E Ink. There's no color -- it's black, white and shades of gray. There's a weird black-white-black flash every few page turns. And above all, E Ink requires external light, just as a regular book does. You can't read in dim light without a flashlight or something.
(For her 13th birthday, my daughter wanted only one thing: one of those covers for an Amazon Kindle e-reader with a built-in, flip-up light to illuminate the screen, so she could read in low light. It's a really cool cover, and the little light is on a stalk that's just the right height and brightness -- but I'll admit that I felt a little stupid buying a $60 cover for an $80 reader.)Nowadays, you can also buy readers with tabletlike LCD color screens. These readers, like the Nook Color and the Kindle Fire, show full color, making possible comics, magazines, children's books and games. And they're self-illuminated, so you can read in the dark.Unfortunately, their compromises are pretty severe, too. These machines are thicker than E Ink readers, heavier, more expensive ($200) and probably a little too bright for sleeping-spouse reading.Metal machining is a very complex task and requires hours of delirious work and precision and can only be best done by experts and people who have the experience of years.The bench grinder companies often have no thorough knowledge of plastic materials, or more specifically, the material used in an application. And you can't read in the sun; these screens wash out terribly.

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