E-Reading and writing

E-Reading and writing

E-Reading and writing

To learn from m E - Learning

Through the concept of aprender and / or ICT qualifications as they are renewed, the concept would have been so far used the word Kiai - learning (e-learning).

As we know that this is an era of internet an we have some shortage of time to go to library and read books. People thought the better way to learning  is e-learning.

We look at some application that bring magazines and books to your digital devices

The digital age has revolutionised the way in which we reading habit before rising phoenix-like from the ashes of the print medium to digital devices, thamks largely to the success to the tablet computer and later,the amazon kindle.

Today, we have portable screens ranging from 3 “ to 10 ” all around us, apart from the laptops and computers and the oh so smart televisions. It is estimated that wikipedia alone holds over 4.3 million artivles, and amazon claims it has more that a million digital books, magazines and newspaper available. Our regular Newapaper- including the one you are reading mow –are available online. Digital reading is clearly  the future.

So let us look at a few options in reading a book without a book.

Amazon

For shipping on quallified orders

Mobile and accessories

Computer and accessories

Movies and tv shows

Tablets PCs

Books

Cameras and photography

The Pioneering digital books store brought its service to india earlier this year, through their kindle e-reader has been available for some time. There is also a free kindel App for apple’s ios, andriod, blackberry, windows phone and even the personal computer. The amazon kindle gives you access to books, periodicals and newspaper through the device.Books are priced as per the publisher policies, and may differ in different  counteries, just like physical books. The shive trilogy by amish for instance, starts at Rs 127.00. Some books are free, and some are discounted. Magazine subscriptions can be cancelled wih in the first 30 days for free.

Books on amazon are mostly English, though some Hindi is also present. Kindle lets you mark the spot where you stopped reading to resume later. On your pc, you can annotate, take notes, and even see popular highlites other readers are making, and share all this on social media. There is also a built in dictionary.

Magzter

Magzter is available for ios, andriod, window 8, amazon kindle fire and web, and is primarily  targated at magazine readers. Magzter lets you buy a single issue or subscribe to the magazines. The screen appears as though you are looking at a real print edition.but you cannot select text or bookmark a page, nor look up words in adictionary or select text from an article.

Zinio

Also designed primarily for magazines, Zinio has over 5,500 titles that you can read or subscribe to. It works on the Iphones,Ipad and Andriod phones as also your computer browser. Zinio too does not let you select text, but you can booksmark a page, and write notes about the page. It also has a ‘ Click and browse’ option’ so you can skip from one article to another via the table of contents. There is no way to preview a magazine, but they do give you a couple of articles to read for free from interesting magazines.

Rockstand

This is a made in india product. It focusses on both magazines and indian books, with books on offer in hindi, marathi, urdu, telugu, tamil, malayalam, kannada, punjabi, and English. The books are attractively priced, and download much faster that magazines. In books you can select text, change the type size and look up a dictionary. You can also share text , through this is not possible in magazines.

Rockstand does not offer subscritions, and you would need to buy issues just as you would buy physical magazines. It does not end up charging your credit card every month for magazines you may not have read.

The downside with rockstand is that it works only on android devices, and your login works with only one device.

Verdict

Each of the above options has its strengths and weaknesses. Downloads are the fatest on the amazon kindle. Zinio’s table of contents is great, though it doesn’t have much indian language content. Magzter offers similar feartures, but for indian language content , rockstand wins hand down, though it works only with one device.

Global Mobile Awards 2012 in the education of the main criteria to select the best applications are:

Innovation in terms of learning efficiency.

Accessibility and ease of use.

The best use of mobility.

Adding virtual learning environments and information systems.