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Originally Posted by kfarmer
But the weight, even ungainliness of some omnibus editions help tell the story. I thin book reinforces a generally light story; a small book talks about small things at a time (sonnets, perhaps); a large tome feels as epic as the story it tells. The finer crafted books gives more of a sense of importance to the story, and prompts the mind to give more thought to it. Common paperbacks are stories not necessarily important -- Star Trek vs Dune, perhaps.
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What I have noticed when reading books on my Cybook is that the thickness of the book or story was a factor that was more important to the experience then I thought before. You really use how much is left of the book (in absolute terms) to adjust your exectations and that influences the experince. Maybe if we will get a page number display on the Cybook I can learn to get this information.
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Keeping the books also provides a meta-memory. They act as mnemonics for my own life -- where I was, who I was, what I was doing even over the space of a few minutes. Trading the book in for a newer copy often disrupts that mnemonic. Reducing it to an ebook completely removes it, as I've experienced in the months I've have my reader.
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That is very true.