It is the electronic or e-book. Barnes and Noble received more than 200,000 requests for the novella. That's the equivalent of selling 2.5 books per second. You can also purchase a Rocket Book device to carry the e-books around. The software was designed following a study of how letters and words appear on the printed page and attempts to recreate those images on-screen.
Animal tracking is a bit like reading.
If you recognise the pattern it's easy. Hill believes that the impact of ClearType and technology like it will have as dramatic a social impact as the dawn of the first printing press. But even Hill will admit that there's a lot more to be done before we'll want to read an entire novel on-screen. The book is a most complex technology. It is the most mature information interface that we have and in order to understand how it works we have to do a lot more.