e-books

An eBook is an electronic book, one you read digitally on your computer, laptop screen or on devices called ebook readers.

You will find them in various formats and until the industry has a standard accessible in all devices these various formats will exist.

PDF format is a popular format forebooks. All platforms are able to gain access and read PDF formatting.

In order to write an ebook,first you have to put the text in word or in a similar procesor, then, after changing the type letter into a more readable one, you have to put it in a PDF FORMAT(as i have said before) and finally, you have to open it in Adobe acrobat.

To save an ebook you have to follow some steps: first of all it is assumed that your browser has Adobe Acrobat configured to be integrated into your browser. If this is the case, click on the disk icon to save a copy of the eBook. If this is not the case, then Adobe Acrobat will come up as a separate application.You may save it to the default location or select your own folder.

Then,In order to read the book, locate the file in Explorer (or what ever file browser you use for your operating system) and click on the file name (that is the name you gave the eBook when you saved it). Upon doing so, the Adobe Acrobat application should come up with the eBook loaded and ready to read.

Here, there are some different types of electronic books:

1. Textual books: they are composed of text.
2. Audiobooks: it includes recording sounds, they could be narrations of information pages.
3.  Cartoons book:it includes animations and videos.
4.  multimedia books:combines text, image, animation, video and sound.
5.  Hypermedia books:they are multimedia books, but they have hypertexts, I mean, with a non linel structure.
6.  Intelligent books:they include some different technics of artificial intelligence, to afford advanced services to the reader.

                                               

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• www.hearnow.org ,fecha de la consulta 13 de noviembre del 2007, hora de la consulta 19:00.

• www.squido.com , fecha de la consulta 13 de noviembre del 2007, hora de la consulta 19:20. 

• www.atlanticbridge.net ,fecha de la consulta 15 de noviembre del 2007, hora de la consulta 18:00.