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- Nice and stylish covers. Call me shallow, but I really miss a colourful cover in my books. It's as if the books lost a little bit of identity after ebook conversion (only black & white covers and, most of the times, not full screen or even absent. And you'll only see it once, when you start reading).
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There's that old saying "Don't judge a book by its cover", but I still thoroughly enjoy judging a cover by its cover (the other day I saw a simple but brilliant modern cover for Dante's
Purgatory. I was most impressed, and wanted it just for that).
I reckon things will improve here, with the technology. Eventually I can see the glorious arrival of full-colour e-inked book-covers for e-books presented in full-page form and with more natural browsers associated (sorry if my optimism is annoying. I do feel the same as you, for what that's worth
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- The feel of volume and weight of a pBook. It's VERY good to have a weightless ereader and is allowing me to read in places and positions never tried before. However, I still miss a little bit of that sensation of holding a real book.
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Perhaps you could set up some kind of "weights" system for attachment to your device or its cover. Varying weights can be added for varying length tomes.
No, you're right, it's not the same, is it?
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- Not being able to skim some pages. Sometimes, I like to take a peek of the following pages, to know when I will reach a chapter ending or a text break, to plan how much I will keep reading in that session. With ebooks, that's not pratical.
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I miss the "flick-through", when I'm trying to search back a few 10's or 100's of pages to some point, letting my eyes skim. Using it as a reference, that "skimming" for location is equally missed.
I never skim forward. There's too much risk my eye will spot a word and "spoil" it for myself.
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And you?
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What do/will I miss? Bookcases full of books...everywhere. My ideal house has every wall with built-ins to the ceiling, only gaps for artworks and necessaries. My "house-as-library" will now likely only find reality in collectables and large pictorials, and that can be an expensive hobby to get into Still, it's a dream, and maybe I shouldn't let it die - someones got to look after all the old pbooks, hey?
Also, I miss bookstore "book-browsing". Hey, I missed it even before the Iliad, because there's none of the big bookstores here (I just moved here last year), but, well, I'm missing it more as it becomes less "necessary".
Cheers,
Marc