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I find one of the joys of reading on the CyBook is that fact that it is so easy to look up the meaning of a word, where, reading a paper book, I'd have simply guessed its meaning from the context and moved on.
Eg, one rather trivial example, in H. Rider Haggard's classic "King Solomon's Mines", the protagonists of the book are walking through the desert at night when they stumble across a herd of "quagga". Hands up anyone who knows what the heck a "quagga" is! If I were reading a paper book, I'd have just said "it's obviously some sort of animal" and left it at that. On the Gen3, though, it only takes me a few seconds to look up the word in my Chambers Dictionary and discover that a quagga is a now-extinct relative of the zebra.
This kind of thing "enriches" the reading experience for me. Sure, it's not vital, but I read a lot of 19th century books and come across this kind of thing all the time. It's one real benefit of an eBook reader, since I certainly don't routinely walk around carrying a large paper dictionary!
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