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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.
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This is exactly true for me too. Spatial memory, I suppose. Until this thread, I thought most everyone would miss the spatial memory aspect of pbooks.
Now that I think of it, a colleague at work expressed amazement that I could quickly find a specific document among very many large piles.
I'm a slow reader. I wonder if that's related somehow? Allowing sufficient time to subconsciously absorb the additional cues. Perhaps others subconsciously weed out that information as extraneous.