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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
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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Maybe it has to do with my reading style, but I highlight with my eReader as I read, so I rarely have to go back for quotes. When I DO have to search, eBooks are
ideal for me because I NEVER search by "flipping" -- I search by looking for a keyword or phrase that I remember from the piece I want to quote.
I guess if you search by flipping, eBooks would be harder because they flip slower than a paper book, but for me I never find what I want by flipping, so eBooks definitely have the edge for my reviewing.
