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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Yes, that is why electronic devices have a search function.  Flipping through is a terribly inelegant and inefficient way of searching for stuff. |
Others have already mentioned charts and illustrations, but it also happens that I search for something in the text of which I have only a vague idea, not enough even for a regular expression to be useful, but, as dickloraine has said, I sometimes have a visual memory of where on a page this had been, what this page had looked like, where in the book it had been... can be frustrating enough with a pbook, but still easier, I think, than in an ebook. Of course, if you
know what you are searching for, that's a different matter
(This still leaves serendipity, though -- opening an ebook on a random page just isn't the same...)
I hope that ebooks will improve -- getting much faster will help, I think. And, as you know, I'm all for large screens and PDF