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Originally Posted by Anthem
E-books (right now) really work best for the novel readers.
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This is correct, and an important point. More specifically, e-ink readers provide the most complete experience for the traditional mass-market paperback novel. The farther you move away from this model, the more you will give up with current e-ink readers. Pictures and other graphics are problematic...and when they can be done, are inferior. Navigating other than linearly is inconvenient. And the page sizes are small - one (dual column) page of my old law school textbooks was the size of four paperback pages - and because it displayed two pages (the way that books do), I basically saw 8 eink screens at one time. Which made flipping through the book even easier.
The Honda Accord is a great car for most uses. But it's not ideal if you want to do a lot of offroading. The same is true of an e-ink reader. They are horrible for offroading!
Well, I mean, they are really good at some things, and not so good at others. And it's good to recognize this in advance.