Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

    An Electronic Book or E Book as they are universally known is a text-based publication in digital form. While they may contain images and graphs of some kind, mostly their formats lead them to be text-based. E books are designed to be read off an electronically compatible device either an I-Reader, a Kindle E-Reader, tablet or personal computer. While E Books are the actual text and document being read, an E Reader is the device that makes this possible. E books are stored as electronic files which are small and easy to share and purchase.

   The world’s first automated reader, the precursor to today’s e-readers, was invented in 1949. In this design, smaller amount of text were printed onto spools and operated by compressed air. The invention of the internet was the next huge step forward in E books. Information sharing, and file sharing was the birth place of Electronic books. In 1971, the text was typed into a computer, and the world’s first E book was born. It was a long time before the next development came along in 1987. It was around this time that the first hypertext fiction work was published. This book was created as the first demonstration of a new online program called Story Space. Story Space was a software program available for Personal computers for creating, editing and reading hypertext fiction.

   Pages do not exist in E books, and the orientation of the reader within the text can be altered depending on adjustments made to the font size and layout. Therefore, the location of the reader throughout the text is displayed as a percentage of the whole text. The rise of e-readers has prompted speculation about the ways the mind processes words on a screen compared to words in paper books–the concern that holding a physical book promotes understanding in a way that staring at a screen does not. The physicality of the book sparks the reader to see the text not only for its content but as an object as well. A recent study suggests that e-readers do not hinder reading comprehension, at least in short passages of text. As research like this gains ground, the use of e-readers will only increase, and with it, new ways of conceiving of and talking about reading will surface in the language, and in turn, enter dictionaries. Yet we still use the term book mark to hold the place where we are up to. While eBooks are unlikely to ever totally replace the physical books, their continued development will surely create new and interesting ways for people to consume content.

 

According to paragraph 3, which of following is TRUE?

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