[caleb72]

I've heard these kinds of arguments before relating to moving to digital and not just for books.

You move into a new world and you keep trying to use the old rules. It doesn't work and just leads to frustration.

Ereaders do not replace all the aspects of books in exactly the same way. There are some fundamental differences that don't lend themselves to exact mimicry. Therefore, you start to learn a slightly different way of doing something. Harry mentioned some of these earlier. Once you start to understand the rules of the new world well enough you can start exploiting that. But you actually do need to make some changes yourself to take advantage.

Just thinking of Kindle - the kinds of things we're talking about:

1) You need to learn that you can find passages using the search function.
2) You can use an unlimited amount of bookmarks, notes, highlighted passages to navigate through later. Take advantage of that.
3) Don't ever wonder what a word means anymore, select the word and read the definition.
4) Start getting the hang of how to jump to locations (rather than pages)
5) If you're like me and you always want to know how much you've read and how much you have left, there's a nice % figure down the bottom left.

If you spend your whole time wishing you can flip a page (just like the good old days), it probably won't be surprising that you're going to be disappointed with an ereader. But if you start trying to think of how you can utilise what the ereader has to offer, you might find yourself less disappointed in the long run.

Regards
Caleb