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Originally Posted by Chiron scriba
Come on boys (and girls)! I may agree that most current e-readers aren't that bad, but they don't even come near the convenience and the handiness of a good old dead-tree book, their only real advantage being so far that you can squeeze a small library into them.
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They're also light and small enough for me to handle pain-free, and fit in my bag. And frontlit. And have cutomisable fonts & sizing. These are huge wins, and make them a lot more handy and convenient for me than the near-ubiquitous giant trade paperbacks about.
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But you cannot drop them to the ground and step on them, nor can you enjoy full-color illustration with fine details, nor can turn them shortly about to tell a friend the right title, author and publisher of the novel you're reading, nor can you dog-ear the pages you want to go over again later on, nor can you scribble your thoughts on the margins or mark the typos, nor can you thrust them in a knapsack between a bottle and a Swiss-army knife and then hope to read them again...
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I can do most of those things with mine! I have no need for color illustrations; my e-ink device is for novels, and I have an iPad Mini for graphic works. I can flip it to Sleep mode in a second to show a friend the cover of the book. I touch the top right corner and a dog-ear appears; I highlight a word and can add an annotation And I routinely thrust mine into my bag between a water bottle and my keys; I keep it in a nice leather folio case just for that purpose. And since I have no wish to drop it to the ground and step on it (I don't want to do that with my paper books either).. I have nothing more to add.