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This is a screenshot showing the different features of the Kindle app for reading books. The Kindle app offers a wide range of books that could be purchased and be readily available on your own device(s). It allows users to redirect or jump from page…

NC State's student newspaper, Technician, is an online-first publication. It used to be print-first, then cut printing costs again and again over the years until it now only runs only once per week. However, news doesn't only occur once per week;…

This is a screenshot of Barnes and Noble's online bookstore on the company's Nook app. Many of the books featured in the store come with an option to sample them. When selected, this allows one to download the first chapter or so of the book and…

This article from the New York Times is about pollution in different parts of the world. It is a full-length article, but it is set against a changing backdrop of floating dots that represent particulate pollution. The article detects the reader's…

This is a picture of a page out of the ebook version of the paperback book entitled Nehanda. I purchased this ebook through the Amazon Kindle reader and used it for an English class I was taking last semester. The Kindle reader has a different page…

This is the book cover of John Berendt's 1994 best seller, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." This true-crime novel is set in Savannah, GA, and the cover was shot in Bonaventure cemetery.

The statue on the cover is called the Bird Girl,…

This is a photo of my e-textbook for French 102. Last semester, I had the hard copy of the textbook as a rental but settled on the E-Text for this semester since it was a more economical option. However, the online version of the textbook is just not…

This is the display of a Kindle Paperwhite showing a page from the "Non-Designer's Handbook". Kindles use e-ink displays that are intended to mimic paper in terms of contrast. They support both type and images, but are limited in the range of grays…

A book of poetry accompanied by images by Iain Thomas. I downloaded this to read on my Kindle not realizing it was poetry. In the interest of full disclosure, I have not looked at a physical copy of this book, but I have read enough to understand the…

The book House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is the perfect example of physical print being influenced by digital media. As you can see in this picture, the pages are a bit discombobulated, with the names of people and places in the furthest left…