Thread: Where would you start in explaining ebooks to a non-techie total newbie?
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Old 11-04-2008, 09:27 AM   #59
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Originally Posted by grimo1re View Post
Yes! Yes! I totally agree. But (there just had to be one ) I do find that walking into a brick & mortar bookshop is a whole different experience than browsing an online bookshop. Both get me salivating, don't get me wrong. But I do love walking into a bookshop. The smell, the colourful covers (I love the travel book section), the picking up and doing a bit of reading, the feeeeeeel of the books....Then I will memorise the titles/authors that I'm interested in and will try to find the books in an e-book version

Basically in my ideal future, there'd be an offline paper-based bookshop as a sort of catalogue and I'd do my actual reading on my device! But perhaps that's too weird....
Agreed, thats about the only thing I do miss about switching to e-books. The wandering around and looking at books and getting interested in a cover, checking the book out and reading the synopsis on the back etc.

Oh Virtual Reality bookshops were art thou?
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