Thread: 50% of fiction bestsellers sales are ebooks, 25% of nonfiction
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Old 08-18-2013, 06:33 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan View Post
I really get tired of not being to be able to understand what the pictures/maps in non-fiction ebooks are even supposed to represent. I mean, the pbook versions are all hires and clear as day. But when it comes to maps I don't even know what I'm looking at. I really enjoyed the ebook version of 1491 but I would have enjoyed it a lot more had I read the p-book version.
I ended up checking out (and renewing a couple of times) the paper version of 1491 from my local library to look at the illustrations from time to time. I read it over (many) lunches, so I didn't encounter very many on any given read. When I was in the vicinity of the pbook version and I thought of it, I would locate the illustrations and look at them for a bit.

Not perfect, but I got the advatanges of both and never had to lug around a huge book. Not very practical for books always on hold, but I read it last year and it worked well for me. I've done it with a couple of other books as well.
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