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Originally Posted by j.p.s
An how does that relative thickness on the left and right work out when when the short story is in the middle of a 500 page anthology?
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They may argue that there is an actual transitional "feeling" of progress as you turn the pages: but we get this by clicking the button for page turns or touching the right vs. left side of the screen for page turns, I would think. Some reading apps even animate page turns!
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
In my experience, it seems like the common person uses "Kindle" as a term for all things ebook. Sort of like how many people say "iPod" instead of "MP3 Player".
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Just like when people called video games "Nintendo" for the longest time.
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Those dang kids aren't learning Maths the old-fashioned hard way, and they are losing the physicality of SLIDE RULES.
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I'm sure we lost something special when we moved away from Scrolls and towards the Codex format as well. "You don't get the profound sense of new words Unrolling before thee!"
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Originally Posted by Hampshire Nanny
If I lose track of an important point in a paper book, I have to skim back over *many* pages to find the relevant part and re-read it. With a Kindle, I search for a term and locate it almost immediately.
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God, I wish I could remember a term or something that I am looking for. I usually have to do the digital equivalent of flipping back multiple pages. Which is terrible and awful because I can't hold my finger in the place I want to get back to, and placing a bookmark takes far longer than the task I want to accomplish. However, I think the new Kindle iOS app just added Placeholders... and I badly want this on my Kindle/Fire HDX.
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares
This is another one of those studies that have too small of a group to base things off of.
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Yeah, I'm not sure you can extrapolate out from 50 people and get any sort of useful information whatsoever. I mean... how many people read books on a regular basis in the world? 50 is probably a pathetic sample pool.