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reading books that readers could refer to book reading experience. (Figure 1.4)

Reading has a significant social aspect. In post-reading phase, books can be

recommended, and discussed with friends and family. Books can be passed to next

generation, and a story can be read to children by their parents. Books can be shared

and contents can be spread and studied together. On the contrary, the e-reader users

own their e-books privately so they can’t share them, but they can write comments and

search items on internet.

The sense of books, the gesture of turning pages, adding bookmark as a way to trace

personal history, are all considered as interactive activities in reading which make

personal reading experience vivid and unique. Similarly, e-reader users can make digital

annotation and add virtual bookmarks. The possibilities to browse internet with

e-readers can make interaction as active as one can do with any personal computer. For

Kindle, readers can browse on it, buy books with it, make annotation on it, and search

on it. It seems as it aims to cover all activities related to reading in one single device.

What a pen scanner can do?

People read mainly for work or for fun. They are two different modes which influence

which book is going to be read, and the readers’ mood. People use tools to custom their

reading. For instance, reading for work is usually private and requires focus, about

learning and solving problems, so that references and tools to make notes or organize

the material would be in need.

Concerning reading activities, such as

looking up a word and making notes, there

are products to replace hefty dictionaries,

pens and notebooks. I consider pen

scanners are one of those products that can

make reading experience a bit different. A

pen scanner is a handheld device with

embedded Optical Character Recognition

(OCR) engine that the scanned text can be

editable for further use (Figure 1.5). As it is

small and portable, users can take them to school, office and library. Pen scanners are

aimed to help reading and transmit printed texts from paper to computer. There are

two basic models, one provides digital dictionaries which helps to make reading more

fluently with instant scan-look up or translation function. The other one scans and

stores printed texts which can be transferred to word processing programs in a

computer instantly or later.

C Pen from C Technologies AB and Quicktionary series from WIZCOM are main pen

scanner products in Swedish market. (Supplement 7.2) They are models of translation,

digital dictionaries and texts transferring. But there are other models that can recognize

Figure 1.5

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