Sentence examples for portable reading from inspiring English sources

2007 Amazon launches the Kindle, an electronic portable reading device.

Now the recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are hoping for their own knight in shining digital armor, in the form of portable reading devices with big screens.

The question of the proper price for e-books has shadowed the industry ever since Amazon introduced the Kindle in late 2007 and created the first truly popular portable reading device.

Other companies are expected to begin selling portable reading devices in the next year, including Plastic Logic, a well-financed start-up; FirstPaper, backed by the publisher Hearst; and perhaps most significantly, Apple.

Amazon and Barnes & Noble have always been good at building portable reading devices.

Also today, Amazon.com introduced a new addition to its family of portable reading devices Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless.

It's a lot more portable (read: wife-friendly) and Biggs says in his review that the picture quality is fine.

That last point is more of an issue on the PSP than, say, the Nintendo DS because developers are more apt to regard the PSP as a home system that just happens to be portable, whereas the DS is clearly a portable (read: simple) system.

There are currently three ways to read ebooks: a) Portable ebook reading devices These are small hand-held computers that mimic books.

But until the cost of portable, digital reading is reduced, it is unlikely that the pocket books that appeared more than 60 years ago will have meet their match.

A copy reformatted for display and ease of use on the many portable digital reading devices such as Apple's iPad or Amazon.com's Kindle would be of interest to many people.