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Old 12-29-2009, 06:42 PM   #12
Elfwreck
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA
Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)
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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