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Originally Posted by Catlady
It is not as easy to flip back screens as it is to flip back pages. It is not as easy to find something that your mind remembers was near the bottom of the page when there's no page.
The search function only works if you remember the specific wording rather than the idea.
I am bemused by the way any criticism of e-reading, however slight, seems always to be met here with disbelief and disdain.
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Why isn't it as easy - all my ereaders and tablet apps (apart from the Kindle app) have page numbers that stay the same so if it was at the bottom of a page then it's still at the bottom of a page... and search only requires remembering a word in the idea - I agree if you can't even remember a word then search is useless but then, even in a paper book, you have to recall something to page back and find earlier material.
Probably the defence of ereading tends to be because most people, on here, are a elf-selecting, strongly pro-ereading group by the nature of the forum - mobile read...
