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Originally Posted by lc49
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!...........
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..........
Donīt 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..........
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Too right. Ebooks will never replace paper books, but they don't have to compete with them. Apart from the content; it's quite another reading experience.
It's fairly easy to search within a book or go to a location. If you see location as ' approximately' it works well; just as you would randomly open a book in the middle or where ever you would approximately want to look.
I'm a great reader, but have emptied my bookcase these last few years; sold a lot of my old books, because I've an ereader for a few years. Sure love the smell of books; but still have that.
As I'm doing academic research at the moment; I don't agree with the use of academic books on a Kindle. The books I want are not digitalized and my research still is a question of lots of legwork.
But, as Josie says ' each to their own"
