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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes
There are just so many personal ways we can mark and use a paper book. Electronic ones just haven't gotten there. If the chapters are web pages there is a lot more we can do with custom hyperlinks and such. People can create their own html pages to link whereever, they can tag groups of links and all of that, but that interface isn't there.
So we buy the paper, we mark related topics with post-it flags of the same colour. We write mnemonics on the flags and we dog-ear other pages. It is just so personal and evolving as we use the book. Reference material is this way and the standard old ePub is a terrible way to subdivide topics within reference material.
It is getting better and eVersions of texts and reference material could be very useful and faster and more complete. I can now have many books on file, but the holder of that information and for some reason scanning still seems easier in paper. But I've got decades of paper experience and only a few years with the electronic formats.
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A good PDF reader will let you "dogear" pages by using bookmarks, allow annotations and hilighting. Once you really learn how to use a good ereading app and make the switch, then I think you'd become quite comfortable reading an ebook.