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Although I have high hopes for forthcoming e-book devices, including their ability to annotate text and to display full A4 PDF content, I am somewhat reluctant to predict the end of the book, at least not any time soon. I don't know if you've experienced the same, but for me it is definitely the case that I can memorize and comprehend content faster and better when it is from a paper book than from a e-book. Perhaps it's because of the physical properties of p-books... when I remember a concept and want to go back in the text, I know exactly where to look for it. It's like I have a picture of the actual page in my mind where I need to go to find what I need. With the e-book it's definitely not like this. I am required to use the search function to find content again, and usually it's not that easy because while I can remember the layout of paper page, it's much harder to remember an actual textual phrase. So today if I have the choice, I would always pick the p-book for studying purposes.
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