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Originally Posted by JasonB
In fact, the one thing I was mentioning to a friend of mine that I miss about physical books (although I still prefer electronic) is the feel of the book in my hand that lets me "sense" how much I've read by the thickness of pages in my left hand vs. the thickness in my right. I've always felt eager to start a book when I have so many pages left unturned in my right hand - then start to feel a little sad <grin> when there's the opposite effect and I know that I'm coming to the end. With electronic books, I don't have the same tactile feel for where I am in a book. It's odd having to just refer to the page number. (Sometimes I'm surprised by how much I've read because I can't sense it - and I haven't explicitly looked at the page number in a while.) Without even just the page numbers I think that I'd feel completely lost.
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This is a good description of how I feel also. And since the Cybook does not have page numbers the effect even worse. I also like to read a specific number of pages in one sitting for that you need a number (and it does not need to be accurate for this). Reading on en eBook-reader it is very hard to get the feeling that you have made any progress in the book.