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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!
And I donīt 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 thatīs 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.
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.
Cheers
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Welcome to MobileRead, lc49.
I guess our reading experiences are different. I get involved in the story, not what I"m holding in my hand.
Reading a book on the Kindle is every bit as "real" as reading a paper book.
Using the search function allows me to 'skip' wherever I want...and I don't have to worry about what to read next wherever I am.......its all right there.
