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Originally Posted by gmw
Regarding some of the earlier discussion: Finding things ebooks is easier when you need do an explicit text search, but I agree with CatLady: in some instances it is easier to search through a pbook. For example I may remember that something was near the front, "near" being one of those subjective terms and will flex according to what you find when you flick back; you glance a paragraph and know it was after that, so you flick forward a few more pages, and so on. That sort of quick scanning through a book isn't feasible with ebooks (or not as they exist now).
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The latest Kindle has a pretty neat "flip through the book" feature which works well. Not as convenient as a pbook still, but an awful lot better than what's been available previously.