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Originally Posted by shalym
. . . I'm just curious--what do you do when you finish the book you're currently reading? Do you to a computer, then search the stores for your next book to read, then plug the reader in and put it onto the device? If so...then you did EXACTLY the same thing as froide, only he did it directly on his device, and you had to wait until you were at your computer to do it.
Shari
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Well, you know the difference between gulping down a glass of wine and sipping it to savour the fine nuances of taste... the latter is more or less my way with e-books: first I buy a book - or more often, as I like old stuff too, I download it from Project Gutenberg or other free sources; then I edit it to remove the rubbish, browse through it without paying much attention to the contents but looking attentively for blatant typos and scan hiccups, correct them, check for spelling errors and patch them up, brush up the overall appearance, re-convert the book to a compatible format and upload it to my e-reader.
Only then I can read it through and enjoy it fully, unhampered by those nasty little nuisances that are so unusual in good old printed books and pop up so frequently in ebooks.
That's probably because I'm a relic from the past, a past that has spoiled me for so many decades with plenty of well-paginated, well-proofread, well-printed and well-bound stuff.
Whereas I guess that the current way of e-reading is mostly to turn on the crap-filter and concentrate on the contents disregarding the form it's served in. It's probably the (current) lack of such a crap-filter that makes me the unbearable hair-splitting pedant I am...
