[JasonB]

I only purchased a reader recently, and have only bought about a dozen eBooks from the Sony Store since, but I've already spotted something that strikes me as a bit odd.

Of those books that I've seen, everything about the book seems to be digitized - except the back cover. You get the front cover, the copyright page, any introductory information, and then the actual book itself. But you don't get the back cover.

This doesn't impact anything about the reading of the book itself, but it does hinder your ability to "show" the book to somebody else in a social situation. With physical books, when asked "What are you reading?" you can simply hand the book over to the person who's inquired. This almost always results in them turning the book over to look at the back cover and read the plot synopsis. (Only occasionally is the book actually flipped through.)

With readers, this isn't possible because there is no back cover. So how do you say, "Here..." to somebody to have them read a plot summary? It doesn't seem as if you can. You're forced to actually describe it to them yourself. This is a small part of the whole physical book experience, but I think it's a somewhat important one from a social standpoint.

Does this strike anybody else as odd? (Or, perhaps, I just haven't encountered a book yet - I wouldn't be at all surprised - that actually had this digitized and then added as the last "page" of the book.)