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Old 09-14-2013, 08:43 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by OtterBooks View Post
I get a sense he doesn't even understand the technology or why people use it. The advantage of ebooks is in the means of storage and consumption, not a change of content (or a change in the entire art form for that matter). Some of the things he wishes for actually exist to some degree with things like Kindle's X-ray, and I'm sure more stuff like that will come, but really most enhancements are going to rely on hardware functions, which has little to do with the publishers he is pointing a finger at. There's just too much "not getting it" in that article.
This ^. I'm sure you can already embed extra audio and video clips in PDFs for instance, certainly in html and read books with the extras in your browser or PDF viewer of choice.

That's not the purpose of ereaders as OtterBooks said much better than I did before, and I'd rather not be forced into reading that way either. I want an ereader just to allow me to change font style and size for my crappy eyesight, carry a much smaller device with me than one paperback and store all my books to save my space at home. If I wanted the extra audio/video content and what it offers, I'd have gotten a tablet.
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