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lc49 · 10-26-2010, 09:16 AM

I am a recent owner of a Kindle 3 and I must admit that its an amazing device but reading something in the Kindle is not even close to the experience of reading a real paper book. I think its many miles away, really!

And I don´t want to be romantic by saying things like "Oh, I love the smell of paper", "I love to see the shelves filled with marvelous books". Sure that´s important too, but the management of a book in the Kindle in very hard and slow. To skip to certain chapters, to localize where you are in the book, to be able to find information in a quick and accessible way. All of this is very hard in the Kindle.

Don´t get me wrong, I think that the Kindle is a wonderful device for academic articles (as long as they are not in pdf) or small texts, but its not suitable for reading a full book. I think that Ebooks will never ever replace the paper books.

Cheers

10-26-2010, 09:16 AM	#1
lc49 Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle 3	Ebook readers and real books... some thoughts I am a recent owner of a Kindle 3 and I must admit that its an amazing device but reading something in the Kindle is not even close to the experience of reading a real paper book. I think its many miles away, really! And I don´t want to be romantic by saying things like "Oh, I love the smell of paper", "I love to see the shelves filled with marvelous books". Sure that´s important too, but the management of a book in the Kindle in very hard and slow. To skip to certain chapters, to localize where you are in the book, to be able to find information in a quick and accessible way. All of this is very hard in the Kindle. Don´t get me wrong, I think that the Kindle is a wonderful device for academic articles (as long as they are not in pdf) or small texts, but its not suitable for reading a full book. I think that Ebooks will never ever replace the paper books. Cheers