Day Book: Encyclopedia of the Mechanics of a teacher to the Kindle and the 'tablets' - Reuters

MADRID, Apr 23. (Portaltic / EP) –

On World Book Day seems logical in the traditional paper format more than 550 years ago Gutenberg popularized with the invention of printing. No doubt marked a before and after in the world and was a revolution at the time. After the revolution has ever been another, printed ink gives way to electronics at a time when the book changes day to give more prominence to the eReaders.

In recent years e-books have evolved to become an increasingly common element in the daily readers. But to speak of what is known today as eBook must go back to year 1949 when a teacher Leon, Angela Ruiz , filed a patent and developed a prototype of their mechanical book , Encyclopedia Mechanics.

ebook precedent took shape in Ferrol military workshops where she taught inventor. It consisted of a device with reel consisting of two parts . The first was based basic skills in reading, writing, and calculating numbers and alphabets and putting pressure on numbers formed syllables, words and lessons. The second work with coils each of which is dedicated to a subject. The subjects were interchangeable and available book sound, light and magnifying glass . Could be read horizontally or vertically and allowed to have personalized content.

invention could not succeed due to lack of funding, few believed in the teacher Angela, who not only was the first e-book creator but first Spanish which formalized a patent . The official start of the book was not formalized until 1971 when Michael Hart developed the Project Gutenberg and digitized the first book, the Declaration of Independence of the United States. The young man took one of the computers from his University of Illinois to scan the volume and subsequently received numerous contributions from all those who wanted to continue their project with new titles.

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Hart, now deceased, more than 40,000 digitized RF titles. In 1993 came the first specific program for electronic books, Digital eBook , which had its first title The Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts, of Thomas Quincey.

But what was missing was a device to appear comfortable place to read those books, and output to a format with growing variety. The computer or other similar devices were not really comfortable when reading and so in 1998 came the first eReaders history , the Rocket eBook and Sofbook.

The Rocket eBook was created by NuvoMedia Inc. in two versions, one with 4 MB of flash memory, storage space about 10 books or 4,000 pages and the Pro version with 16 MB memory , for about 40 books or 16,000 pages. The more Softbook had reached capacity and store up to 100,000 pages. Both were expensive and difficult to acquire, and while the Internet is increasingly expanding across households, not everyone was familiar with the digital book format and its possible viewing on other devices.

Over the years emerge attempts to popularize new eBooks as EveryBook case in 1999 that unlike electronic books, this had two color displays that resembled a book printed.

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others like Franklin ebookman, more like a PDA , the Cytalen or Hanlin, but none came to have great success. One of the most serious attempts by incurring the formal market was massive Librié Sony, released in 2004 in Japan and used a rental system instead of buying books. It cost 300 euros and did not have the impact that was expected.

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electronic ink was becoming known and the Internet was full of digital books. Amazon soon ran as would one of the leading marketers of eReaders . In 1995 he created his digital book store, the first in the world, and in 2007 took first Amazon Kindle . The eReader had 256 MB of internal memory and the possibility of 4 GB SD card. Its affordable price made it the first device of its kind that had real success in the market.

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has not stopped and is the fifth generation of the Kindle, which did not reach Spain until 2011. It has become the world’s bestselling eReader and can be found for 99 euros on its website.

have been many companies since then have created models of eReaders such as Sony, Papire, Samsung or Spanish or bq Grammata. The price of these devices is becoming increasingly low and there are some little known brand that can get to be in the 50 euros. That coupled with the proliferation of free titles Internet and low cost of those who are extra, has made many people resort to this type of reading for convenience and savings.

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evolution of reading and beyond birth and Age Pop ‘tablet’, it is not even necessary to have a proper eBook but through a ‘smartphone’ or an ‘tablet ‘you can enjoy reading portable way .

In Spain the use of eReaders and ‘tablets’ increasing dramatically. In 2012 there were five million units and sixfold the digital book sales, up from two million euros in 2011.

Rising eBook reading so far this year has been about 87 percent, which only serves to highlight the change in the process reading and the customs of the citizens.

such an important day like today where still paper and bindings and libraries occupy the streets of the country , you can not ignore this data and maybe it’s time to wonder if there will come a time when the book Day by Day eBook step.