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Originally Posted by Katsunami
The one thing I find irritating about e-readers is that they don't have a physical way of showing you the progress you've made by becoming thicker on the left and thinner on the right (or otherwise around should you read from right to left). That's the one thing I still like about paper books
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I have to agree that the thickness of the remaining part of the book is a first rate progress indicator but a percentage read is as good an indicator and maybe better. Even if the thickness is more intuitive, would you really want your kindle to get thinner and the cover to get thicker as you read?
I read paperbacks all my life. Now I read on a Kindle and sometimes on my phone. Both are better in a lot of ways than the paperbacks. I'd miss them if I had to go back to paper.
Ereaders are the third great technical advance in reading. The first was the move to paper books from scrolls. The second was the printing press. And now there's the ereader.
Oh wait! I left out what might be the most important advance: the inserting of spaces to separate words. If I recall that happened about the 10 century.
Barry