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As a fairly recent convert to ebooks I find the reading experience as good as or better than that with paper books. However, there are two problems with the ebooks that I've bought so far that make me reluctant to buy any more.
The reader is the Kobo, and the six ebooks were purchased from the Whitcoulls/Kobo web site. Virtually all my reading is non-fiction.
Obviously I realize that colour illustrations will not be shown in colour, but I had expected original illustrations (graphs, maps, diagrams, etc.) to be present. So far, in the four books I've read, not a single illustration. The captions are there, but the illustrations are missing. Many non-fiction books are worthless without diagrams. The least Kobo could do would be to indicate on their web site whether illustrations are present in the ebooks or not.
The second problem is that footnotes are not readily accessible. This is partly due to the design of the Kobo software (no search or goto or linking), and partly due to ebooks being paginated 'on the fly'. Some books have the footnotes right at the end, others have them at the end of each chapter.
In future I'll still be buying paper books when they have colour illustrations, and others with b&w illustrations if I can't get an assurance before buying that the ebook version does contain illustrations.
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