To add to the literature, we focused on a common experience in college – reading an educational article – in addition to investigating numerous dependent measures and taking a mixed methods approach overall. We compared college students’ learning from, and perceptions of, print and digital readings, with the goal of providing an informed recommendation for students and educators regarding best approaches for reading assignments.

This review may guide e-book designers, publishers, aggregators and authors to develop e-books which are tailored to the consumers' needs. This systematic review is able to identify the main contributing factors that influence the use of e-books via handheld mobile devices. However, not many articles explore the influence of affective factor on the use of academic e-books via handheld mobile devices. The findings show that utilitarian, cognitive and affective factors influence the use of e-books via handheld mobile devices. An article was used for this review if it met three pre-determined criteria. At the second stage, snowballing method was used to identify the relevant articles by extracting them from the bibliography of key articles cited in this paper. The keywords used for the search were acceptance, adoption, use, electronic book, handheld mobile devices, e-reader, iPad, PDA and iPhone. Furthermore, journals pertaining to technology in education were searched individually to identify more relevant papers. At the first stage, electronic databases and journals such as Emerald, Scopus, ProQuest, SpringLink, Science Direct, Wiley Online Library, Academic Search Premier, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Education Research Complete and ERIC were used to search for the relevant articles. Two search strategies were used to identify the relevant literature of the studies reviewed. The aim of this paper is to systematically review the factors which influence the use of e-books via handheld mobile devices for academic purposes in higher learning institutions. Certain factors influence the use of academic e-books via these handheld mobile devices. Electronic books (e-books) can be read via dedicated e-book readers and multipurpose handheld mobile devices such as iPads and iPhones.

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