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Originally Posted by Anthem
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.
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I have to agree and disagree. They do some thing better and some thing not better. One thing they do better is the accidental turning to a page that spoils the book for us. Currently they do not work well with textbooks. They allow us to carry many more books with us then we would otherwise be able to carry. They give us the ability to have more privacy when reading where other may see what we are reading.
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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.
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I agree that current readers do work best for books yo read straight through. Non-fiction and flipping back is not an issue with today's readers. In fact, you can now take notes and highlight sections for when you want to flip back to refer to them. As for footnotes, you make them as end notes and you are usually OK. You just select the link, go to the end note, read it and then go back to where you were reading. It's not hard and it's very easily doable with toady's readers. So as far as footnotes/end notes go, I have to disagree with you 100%. I also have to disagree about non-fiction where you may want to flip back a few pages.
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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!"
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Maybe the problem is that you don't like the way the K3 does these things. Maybe you should try a Sony 650 and see how you get on with that. The touch screen may make some of these activities easier to deal with.