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Originally Posted by danskmacabre
It's already been mentioned, but in my experience, when talking about Ereaders to friends who have never used one, pretty much ALL of them were vehemently against ereaders, staing the usual reasons why:
1: you can replace the look and feel of a book
2: I'd hate reading on an ereader
3: It's just "not the same"
4: I'm too old fashioned to use an ereader
and various other reason like that.
However once they actually try one for a bit ( a lot of them got free ereaders with mobile contracts), without exception, for the purposes of reading novels, they now prefer using ereaders by far.
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Well, I thought it would be the same and was surprised when there was some things with ebooks that made the experience sub-optimal for me. I now mostly read fiction books on my Kindle but that is not because I prefer the reading experience on the Kindle. It is because it is more convenient to buy books to the Kindle, the books takes no place, you can enlarge the letters and so on. So i do not know what the correct answer in the poll would have been for me. But if you do not mind the inconvenience of buying a paper book and the small letters and its size than I am not surprised at all that paper book reading would be preferred.
Then there is one obvious thing that does not work for ebooks and that is browsing and fast looking up things you just read a couple of pages back.