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E-Reding and wireless reading devices are spreading everywhere nowadays as companies find new ways to attract avid readers and gadget lovers. The two popular e-book reading devices are the Kindle from amazon.com and iPad from Apple, both have great reviews and many advantages that you should consider before making the decision. The iPad has an LCD screen (like new laptops) while the Kindle uses the e-Ink technology and they both allow you to download and read e-books, PDF files, bookmark the pages you want, browse the web, listen to music, etc. There are many reviews and comparisons between the two devidces, so I'll try to focus on the important advantages and disadvantages of both. The important question is: what are you going to use it for? The Kindle seems to beat the iPad in terms of book download as the Amazon bookstore allows you to downloadhundreds of thousands of books, get your magazines and mewspapers delivered to you before everyone as well as the ability to buy new b

If you are planning to format your hard disk drives or just wanna have a back up of your bookmarks or favourite websites, you should consider save them, specially for those with a large list with sub-folders. This applies to all browsers: INternet Explorer, Flock, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. In IE: Click on File > Import and Export. Then Choose Export from your browser and in the next window check "favourites". The same steps in Mozilla can be applied but in the bookmarks menu instead of the "file" menu. Then you choose the location of the file and it will be saved as an html file. You can save the file and "import" it later to the browser in the same way you exported it. Another wa to avoid this is by using an online bookmaring website, this way, you favourites are always stored online and you never lose them, you can name them and give them tags and file them under categories. When using online bookmarking sites, you can choose wether to make y