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do? You have to hand it over to your friend With a phone in our hands, how can we get
when you meet. If you have the book in your access to it? It is with the help of the internet
laptop or phone or tablet, how does the situa- that we get access to digital media. Now, what
tion change? You can share it with your friend is the internet? How does it help us in gaining
through online platforms for sharing files. In access to the digital media? The Internet is a
online reading, the same book can be accessed global system of computer networks that are
by many people at the same time. Sharing the interconnected with each other. Since it is a
written content can be done in digital reading. global network, we can find information from
all around the world on this platform. When it
2�4�2 Navigating through the Inter- comes to digital reading, books or magazines
net from around the world are available on the

Mobile phones have become inevitable in internet. Once we get an internet connection
our lives. From waking up in the morning until on the device, how do we find out what we
we go to sleep at night, we use our phones. want on the internet? Our devices already have
What else do we do with our phones besides a tool called an internet browser, which can
calling people? We use it to buy things online, be used to find the information we want from
watch videos online, chat with our friends and online sources. There are many internet brows-
family, be informed about daily news, read ers available on devices for searching online.
things, etc. Out of all these uses, let us focus Some of them are Google Chrome, Internet
on reading. As we have already discussed, we Explorer/ Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Apple’s
can read a lot of things on our phone. We have Safari, and Opera.
also seen the benefits of reading online over
reading in print.

What is the source of all these e-resources?

Fig 2.4.1 Internet Browsers

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