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Originally Posted by ProfJulie
I am very happy with my Cybook and love the convenience of carrying around a ton of books on it. But there are some things I miss.....
When I get a paper book, especially if it is nonfiction, I like leafing through the book, scanning chapters, looking it over. Then when I read the book, I sometimes mark passages that I want to go back to, dwell over, maybe share with someone else.
I recently put an eCookbook on my Cybook. After fiddling around with it, I don't think I'll be buying many eCookbooks.
I also bought an eBible recently. I like the convenience of having the eBible on my Cybook, but the navigation leaves a lot to be desired....The eBible is fine for my personal reading, but I don't see myself using it much when I go to church and have to jump from passage to passage.
Using pbooks (versus ebooks) for these kinds of books is just more enjoyable to me...pbooks are easier to browse, easy to bookmark favorite passages, recipes, etc., and for a recipe book anyway, the color pictures are nicer to view. Of course, as ebook readers and ebooks evolve and as they improve their navigational and bookmarking features, I could change my mind....
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The advantage of the pbook is that it requires no special effort on the producer to make it a "random access" book. That happens automatically. However with an ebook, a special effort must be made to make it easily accessible in a random manner. Such easily accessibility will happen as the industry matures, just as time-sharing did with computers.
It used to be that one program ran until it finished before another could start. Today we take time-sharing for granted to the point some younger people can not imagine life without it. I believe that eventually random access in ebooks will reach a similarly transparent level.
