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Originally Posted by BexBits
My reading habits were profoundly influenced by roaming at will through my parents' bookshelves when I was younger. To the extent that what I read may be simply files in my personal reading device that opportunity will never happen for my kids. Even the chance for another adult to catch sight of a book in my livingroom and find a series that she may also love is gone.
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That's one of the features ebooks *really* need to work on. (Goes with "ebooks need a method for sharing between people.") The inability to easily browse someone's collection & borrow a book will keep them in the niche of "nifty tech toy" instead of real books.
Real books are social. Pixels vs printed is not nearly as big a divide as private vs public.