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Originally Posted by RWood
But when its over, when you have finished the book, do you remember the cover or the content? The cover is there to sell the book. You can see the same color cover displayed as an electronic thumbnail at an ebook store. At Amazon they are the same size as the thumbnails for the pbooks.
The weight of the book. I have had many books that were too heavy to keep comfortably in my hand or lap. With an electronic reader War & Peace has the same mass as Peter Rabbit and neither strains the hand to hold.
Skimming pages was never a big issue for me except on reference books and I don't look to my Reader for reference books.
I love the ability to change the typesize of an ebook. With a too small print pbook you are out of luck or looking for a loop to read them. With an ebook you just select the larger font and start to read.
The smell of pbooks? Other than the "high" of the VOCs in freshly printed books, most of the smell is mold of some sort. I'll stick with the ebook.
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I have the original dustcover of my "Mote in God's Eye" still clinging to life on the book, in spite of it falling apart. With my e-book copy, it will probably never be taken off the shelf again, but it's still there. Silly, I know, but I cling to it becasue it makes the set "complete."