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Originally Posted by CommonReader
First of all I would be satisfied if ebooks were just as "enhanced" as their pbook versions. Reading a lot of history non-fiction I have to find repeatedly that e.g. maps are completely useless in the ebook version - and I'm talking here about current books published by major publishers with prices to match.
Apart from that I do see quite a few possibilities for useful enhancement for non-fiction books but I definitively do not want any "enhanced" fiction.
BTW I'm not particularly impressed by the Professor's holiday reading list.
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Agreed, there are certainly situations where they could do a better job with maps and such in history books. I'm not sure if the issue is that publishers don't want to bother with hi-res map scans, or if the reader software doesn't do a good job of scaling hi-res graphics.
For the most part, I suspect the good professor is your standard academic/consultant. In a theoretical world, you could generate all these multimedia enhancements that everyone would just love. In the real world, that sort of thing has been tried and rejected by most consumers. In general, people who are readers don't want to be jarred out of the reading experience.