ciao David
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Perhaps to you, coloured highlighting is freaky cool. I'm from a generation that marked up our textbooks with multicoloured highlighters. I never did mark up fiction books, nor did I read them with a dictionary and thesaurus at hand. As I said, my use for highlighting in ebooks is for errors -- spelling, grammatical, continuity, etc. -- so that I can fix them later. No need for more than one colour though I can overlap highlights and get multiple shades of gray.
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nice to overlap highlights, but I miss the study functionality to organize and recall highlights in no fiction books, if I were a more novel oriented person, as I would read 1, max 2 novels per time, i would just buy a book, i personally use ereaders, cause I have tons of books i consult and study, and need sometimes dozens of them on the same session., it is about personal taste, but ... is a pity for me I do not have the possibility to decently study with an ereader, I would like to buy the jetco color, but cost a fortune, and i do not know if I am going to have issues with the time what willhappen to this brand once i convert all the highlights to other brands.
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As for needing coloured covers? Sorry but I very seldom look at the covers of dead tree books much less ebooks. For the most part covers make me feel vaguely ill at the best. Most of the cover illustrations were done by people with no idea of the contents of the book -- as a horrid example
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David, i understand what you mean indeed but I do not agree on this because is a mechanism of association, that makes a library beautiful and you remember that period, things give you emotions, sometimes cover are terrible, but other time are nice, always instead are part of that book ritual you see the cover you remember the story, nobody would be disappointed to see the color cover, actually this is why companies allow you on default to put as safe screen the book you are reading, just I want to see the color, because it would remember me a real book, on the same principle is based the fact light gives you a more white experience, more page paper similar
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If I really need to see a colour image of a cover, I can always dig out the Nexus 7 HD or the iPad Air or my laptop. Sadly, I find reading on an eInk screen to be much kinder to my eyes that a backlit LCD. Even an light emitting AMOLED display is not easy on my eyes.
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I want all the books in one place, with the page, tablets are not an option as you say are backlighted and unreadable. people that read systematically book on tablets jsut do not take my respect, because will be an issue of the future. do you remember cigarettes, when they went out were pubblished as good for the throat ache. Studies already show that reading tablets before to sleep is a bad habit that cause insomnia
I can barely think about the consequences in terms of headache and eyes problems.
I would encourage mobileread.com to start a campaign on that, Ipad and tablet will continue to be sold, but reading is another thing