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Fig 2.4.3 Electronic devices used for Online Reading

Desktop computers, laptops, and tablets are When searching online for information,
similar to our mobile phones, and we use them have you ever come across the website called
to read things online. With internet connectiv- Wikipedia? Wikipedia is a website that acts
ity, all these devices can be used for online as an online encyclopedia where information
reading. The Amazon Kindle is an electronic from almost all fields is made available. If
gadget similar to our tablet. It is designed and you are not familiar with this website, have a
marketed by Amazon, specifically for e-read- look at it through this link- https://en.wikipe-
ing. With a Kindle in our hands, we can read dia.org/wiki/Main_Page. What happens when
e-books, magazines, newspapers, or any other you click on the link? You are directed to the
digital media by browsing, buying, or down- website. A link, otherwise called a hyperlink, is
loading it. Upon having internet connectivity, a reference that leads to digital data upon click-
all these digital media can be accessed from ing or tapping on it. When you visit the website
this device through the Kindle Store, which of Wikipedia, within the text on the page, you
is an online e-book store operated by Amazon can find certain words in blue letters, which
for this purpose. function in the same way as a link. These are
the links that can redirect you to many different
2.4.3 Links And Hypertexts pages when you tap or click on them. Such a

We are all familiar with using the internet text that contains multiple links that lead to
to find information that we require. In order to other texts is called a hypertext. Hypertext
search for information, we need to visit differ- documents are connected to one another by
ent websites on the internet. hyperlinks.

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