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Originally Posted by boxcorner
I bought a natural history book recently - a wild flower identification guide. It is designed for field use, with colour-coded sections to facilitate identification, by flower colour, habitat, and so on. Flicking through it, it occurred to me that an e-book wouldn't be anywhere near as versatile. Are books intended for outdoor use a niche that might survive?
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Flicking could be emulated in software. A small sample of your flower could be sent through an input port and have its DNA scanned for instant indentification and all relevant info would popup onto your "screen".
The Kindle probably doesn't work as a platform for decent field guides, the ipad might, but I don't have one of those
