12-29-2009, 06:42 PM
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Grand Sorcerer
Posts: 5,185
Karma: 25133758
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA
Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)
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Things I miss from paper books:- An instant sense of how far into the book I am, and how much there is left to read,
- High-quality pictures, esp. ones with metallic ink,
- Covers with raised letters or tooled leather,
- Extra-thin, gilt-edged pages on bibles other fancy books,
- The sound of paper riffling,
- Being able to flip to the index, look at something, and flip back without losing my place,
- Shelf of titles to look at & offer to friends,
- Stack of "finished reading" and "to be read;" easy to tell which is which.
What I don't miss:- Cracking the spine to be able to hold it open far enough to read into the center margins,
- Needing two hands to read,
- Heavy weight on my wrists,
- Tiny text that's hard to read in dim light,
- Trade & hardcover sized books that I have to keep shifting to be looking at the right place on the page,
- Bookmarks that fall out so I forget what page I was on,
- Bookmarks that damage the spine,
- Pages that tear if I turn them too fast/roughly,
- Papercuts,
- Old cheap books with irregularly-cut pages,
- Only able to carry one or two with me at a time,
- Figuring out what to do with the cheap, damaged paperback when I'm done with it--keep? Trash? Give away? Bookcrossing?
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