E-Reader According to the Oxford English Dictionary

By Silvio Lorusso, June 13, 2013 at 2:48 pm.

The Oxford English Dictionary recently included the word e-reader with the following meanings:

It can denote a person who reads electronic texts (this sense dates from 1995) or a hand-held electronic device used for reading e-books or other text in digital form (1999).

Source: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/06/oed-june-2013-update/

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