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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
Physical imitations, both of the space available to me and of my own motor skills mean that I strongly prefer e-books. That said books whose aesthetic appeal is strong enough stay, like the Discworld map collection and the beautiful bilingual tri-scriptal(my coinage) Dialogs of Pyaasa. Still on the look out for some drop-dead gorgeous Sadi too, if I can find them with caligraphic Persian Nastaliq on one side, English on the other.
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I know exactly where you're coming from, Stuart. Several of my Egyptology reference books have large fold-out photographs of (for example) wall scenes in the tombs in the Valley of the Kings; one book has pictures that fold out to about 2mx1m in size. That just doesn't work with ebooks
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