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Old 07-05-2011, 10:02 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
What?

I'm not sure I understand this. I'm a hobbyist reviewer who writes reviews on everything I read. Reviewing eBooks is not essentially harder or different from reviewing paper books. Indeed, it's much easier because if you want to quote from the source, you can just copy-paste instead of typing it all in. Very convenient.

Depending on the reading device, keeping up with flipping around is just as easy if not faster on eBooks -- eBooks have a SEARCH function. God, what I would have given for that in college....... *wistful*
Are you reviewing non-fiction books? Doing a review of an ebook for, say, one of my history classes... requires a lot of flipping it around to find the parts I'm looking for for my citations, quotations, etc.

And say you're sitting in class, and trying to find something that argues a certain point or backs up an argument you want to make. Flipping around in a pbook is a lot faster. I can rapidly skim / flip through it and find probably the content / chapter / whatever I'm looking for. Not as easy with an ebook.

It's a mixed bag. The search function can be really useful if you know exactly what you are searching for. But it's a LOT harder to rapidly flip through the book and find what you are looking for.

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