Hello! How do E-books work? It’s a good question, now that the E-reader format has become so widespread that you can do it on your phone, your computer, your tablet, or on a dedicated E-reader.
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It’s really something that you pretty much have to adopt – kind of like typing skills or learning how to use the internet, or computers in general. Just something that was avoidable for a very long time when it was just in PDF format but now has become so widespread that you really can’t ignore it for very much longer. And I imagine that more of the paper will be going this route, eventually sent straight to your phone, and work from there, filling in forms from there for everything from government to state to local type information and sign-up forms.
But anyway, an E-book works by taking whatever information the author put together and putting it into a format that that specific reader can read or view, and show to you, the viewer.
Now there are different formats that can only open in several different programs, like MOBI and ePUB. PDF files, which are for the most part universal – can be seen through something like Adobe reader. They have other readers out there, or straight through a browser using a reader plug-in. But there’s also MOBI files and EPUB files, which, you don’t really need to know all that because they are viewable through for instance, I don’t really know what Apple has available but the iTunes books or iBooks, one of their programs has a viewer for it. But also the Kindle reader, Amazon Kindle reader for Android phones, I believe it’s for iPhones and tablets and whatnot too.
But any other format other than that like text or html are viewable in web pages and text editors. And that’s really all there is to it. You open it up, and if it’s a relatively dumb file like a PDF or a Text file, it’s not going to remember where you’re at. You’re going to have to keep track or make a note each time you edit the file. But if you use a smart file/smart reader like the Kindle reader, it will keep track of where you are at, you can highlight things, make notes, save them for later, pull them off of your regular computer later, and do kind of nifty stuff like that.
So depending how detailed you want to get into it, you have a ton of options. I personally use the Amazon Kindle reader on my Android phone. I use the purchasing only on the PC or laptop, and then do the reading on the phone later. I do have a Kindle also. Which is nice, it’s just that you can pretty much only do Kindle stuff on it, so I don’t like too many tools to be one-shot, single-only type purposes. Especially for digital-type stuff.
But that’s the gist of it. If you can get a PDF on your phone or on your computer, you’re good to go, but you probably have to keep track of the way you read and where you’re at in your progress. But if you are doing full-on Amazon books, get the Kindle reader or the Apple equivalent, or compatible version, and just go to town. There’s not much else to it.
I’ve written a few books myself, and I test out every single one of them. So if I can figure it out, you certainly can. Just a little bit of practice. That’s what I would say about how E-books work, I hope that helps! Bye.