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Originally Posted by Cheerful Hamster
First post for me. Personally I prefer paper books, but after 30 years of collecting them I'm out of storage room so eBooks to the rescue. I wouldn't miss the dead trees so much if the formatting on eBooks was better. Over the past six months I've taught myself to use Sigil and I'm amazed that any eBooks look halfway decent considering the poor support for even the most basic HTML in e-readers and formats. No knock against Sigil though, the limitations are inherent in the ePub format.
Here is a poll taken on the Tech Report site that is somewhat relevant to the thread. Since it's a tech site these are tech-savvy respondents who are likely to be familiar with e-readers.
How do you prefer to read books?
On a dedicated e-reader 16%
On a smartphone 3%
On a tablet 12%
On a laptop/desktop 3%
On paper 53%
Via audiobooks 3%
I'm not much of a reader 8%
Other/mystifying 1%
Total votes: 8434 |
Ah, but you have to keep in mind that paper books have been around for 563 yrs(as far as mass printing) and ebooks have been round for only about 42-43 years. So ebooks have only been around for 7.637% of the time that mass printed paper books have been. i.e. 43 *100/ 563= 7.637 Naturally there are still some bugs to work out, how could there not be?