While there is a steady choir of voices bemoaning the future of reading in the digital age, the news is not all bad. According to a 2013 poll commissioned by USA Today and Bookish, the number of e-reader owners is on the rise and a significant percentage of them say they’ve actually been reading more since getting their gadgets.
Despite bleak prophecies, print books will always have their aficionados and there is no reason to assume e-books will ever replace “traditional†books completely. However, there is a growing sense that, rather than taking anything away from the reading experience, e-book reading devices and tablets make it easier for us to get lost in a book and actually give us an incentive to read faster.
Here are 7 reasons why the future of reading might actually be brighter with 7-inch Android tablets.