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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Readers just don't need the type of features the OP is envisioning. Academics do. And when it comes to an academic setting. Ebooks and ereaders just can't hold a candle to multiple physical books (full of physical bookmarks) spread out on a table within easy reach of the student/researcher. They might not ever.
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That's precisely why, as an academic myself, the overwhelming majority of the books I use for my research are in PDF format. Good academic PDF apps on a tablet allow you to rapidly flip between multiple documents (or even different parts of the same document), and PDF annotation is permanent because it becomes a part of the PDF itself.
The needs of academic readers are completely different from those of fiction readers. I read fiction on my eInk Kindle. My Egyptology reference library is in PDF format on my iPad (and in paper on my bookshelves).