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Originally Posted by Huyggy
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.
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As I have said in other posts here on MobileRead, e-book readers and e-books in general are in a very awkward position. They are real book impersonators at this point in time. They do a few things better, but many of the advantages that we associate with a bound book are most certainly missing and no digital equivalent feature has been devised to stem the bleeding. We can change the paradigms and relearn how to read a digital book and move away from the printed methods, but things need to be intuitive and far less of a mimicry. Like Doctorow said, Neither E, Nor Book.
E-books (right now) really work best for the novel readers. If you don't look much beyond John Grisham, Nora Roberts, Harlan Coben, and others for your book entertainment then you are golden, e-books work great for reading these types of books. But if you like some variety and you enjoy almost any sort of non-fiction where needing to flip back a few pages (OMG this is annoying to the point of murder on every e-reader I have tried), run end notes and footnotes (no digital equivalent worth mentioning), hold your finger in the index while you check out the pages indicated, and on and on, then you are in for a world of hurt.
I am crazy and I do end up reading the sorts of books where those types of activities are necessary on my e-reading devices and I almost always end up looking at myself in the mirror and wondering, "What is wrong with you?! Buy these in print you idiot!"