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Originally Posted by Huyggy
Due to my field, my books are mostly used not for recreational but for professional purposes.
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I agree with cfrizz: You should have mentioned this from the first post, so we could have had a properly focused discussion.
Yes, most readers are optimized for simple page-turn book reading. For references, many of them can handle a more complex layout that includes table of contents, links (to replace some footnotes) and appendix. Advanced PDF files can include all of these things. So the problem with finding what you want isn't just with the readers... it's with the producers of textbooks and reference materials.
If entertainment-level book producers have been dragging their heels into the 21st century, textbook producers have been even worse... they've purposely tied boulders to their ankles to prevent their being dragged into the modern world. But some of those producers have even abandoned books for CD and DVD packages. Maybe the answer for you resides, not with ebooks, but with multimedia presentations.
Others have also pointed out that, even with the new materials that are out there, you will have to learn new ways of doing things, and pick the hardware that gives you the most desired options. Learning new ways can be involved, and sometimes troublesome, but as
Jordan's Theorem states: "
You get used to... what you want
to get used to."
So, instead of looking at the ways digital documents are not exactly like paper, you should be looking at the things you can do with digital documents that will benefit you more than using paper... and ways in which you can find new ways of accomplishing the things you want to do with your documents.