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Huyggy · 01-22-2011, 04:39 AM

Hello!
I don't post here very often, only perusing through this wonderful forum to see the latest evolutions, progress in ereaders.
Thanks for all the very valuable participants of this forum so!

But, I'm still a bit disappointed by the evolution of the technology of the eraders, during all this time (I'm registered to this site for a long time now...):
They (the engineers, the tech companies...) are still advertising about the superiority of the ereaders, how the display is bigger and bigger, how the pages are flipping faster and faster and so on...

But what about the principal quality of the book, i.e the ability to leaf through it? I don't care storing 1'000 page book on my device. If I have to go through all the pages to go where I want, this 1'000 page book is useless !

Have you used your ereader as a dictionary? It's slow and not very practical to use.
I remember a time at the beginning of the e-ink when it was promised a moment when a 300 page ereader would display all the book that you want. But this hope seems so far now when I see the future evolution of the ereader.

So, sorry for that, but your bigger screen, your 32Go hard drive, your full color display won't never do the trick against a 600 year old technology as the paper booklet!
It's sad for me, and I would be happy to hear your opinion about that, what you think about this (sadly) indisputable quality of the books.

01-22-2011, 04:39 AM	#1
Huyggy Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 87860 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Strasbourg France Device: Onyx Max 3 & Onyx Lumi 2	Leafing Through Books : Why ereaders aren't worth a 600 y.o technology ! Hello! I don't post here very often, only perusing through this wonderful forum to see the latest evolutions, progress in ereaders. Thanks for all the very valuable participants of this forum so! But, I'm still a bit disappointed by the evolution of the technology of the eraders, during all this time (I'm registered to this site for a long time now...): They (the engineers, the tech companies...) are still advertising about the superiority of the ereaders, how the display is bigger and bigger, how the pages are flipping faster and faster and so on... But what about the principal quality of the book, i.e the ability to leaf through it? I don't care storing 1'000 page book on my device. If I have to go through all the pages to go where I want, this 1'000 page book is useless ! Have you used your ereader as a dictionary? It's slow and not very practical to use. I remember a time at the beginning of the e-ink when it was promised a moment when a 300 page ereader would display all the book that you want. But this hope seems so far now when I see the future evolution of the ereader. So, sorry for that, but your bigger screen, your 32Go hard drive, your full color display won't never do the trick against a 600 year old technology as the paper booklet! It's sad for me, and I would be happy to hear your opinion about that, what you think about this (sadly) indisputable quality of the books.