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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Personally I am very interested in spreading the ebooks message and from my interaction with people live and online, I found that a big obstacle is the technical aspect. People do not like reading long texts on pc/latops, at least not in pdf/html/word (scrolling is very unnatural in reading books, as is reading landscape unless you do it double page and then you need good reading software) and unfortunately right now we are in the "Tower of Babel" age with all formats, devices ... in the ebook world.
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Microsoft Reader is a free product on pc/laptops that has none of the limitations you describe. It shows a single page equivalent to a book page, and hitting the space bar causes the next page to display.
Furthermore, some of the same people who say that they prefer paper books to reading on a PC, nevertheless can be found for hours in front of their PC, reading emails from friends, Forum discussions like this one, news sites, chat room messages, etc. No one says " Gee, I wish those Forum discussions were delivered on paper. "
The difference is just what people are used to. It's like DVRs and Broadband - you have to use it, in order to realize how useful it is.
PS Of course, MS Reader cannot be used on Nokia 770, but I was responding to the more general comment quoted above.