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To me this is appalling, though it will be interesting to see how readers take to this technology. When does a book cease to be a book?
It seems that what is being done is essentially creating a more restrictive version of the web to run on smaller, limited devices. Whilst hyperlinks may be of some use in certain types of books, for instance, text books, why would I want to look at the links referred to on my tiny ereader or even a larger tablet, when I can use my nice 17 inch MacBook or my even larger desktop monitor. I suspect it will be a little like DVD's which incorporate so much useless extra content which many people never even bother to view.
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