Remember sitting down to relax with a good hardbound or paperback book. You leisurely turned the paper page with your fingers and inevitably needed to readjust the entire book in your hand(s) with each page flip to comfortably read the left page, then the right, then the left again. As you progressed through the book, more adjustments were needed to keep your hands from cramping. The need to take a respite from reading was due more to the need to flex your fingers and wrists than it was to rest your eyes.
Let’s not even delve into the personal decisions such as: to dog-ear or bookmark, to break the spine or not, to read the HB with the paper jacket on or off, to mark up the book permanently or use sticky notes or cards, etc., etc.
Without rehashing all the obvious benefits of electronic book reading devices and their shortcomings, I’d like to make one specific observation on the subject. When I touch the page turn button on my Sony Reader, the page turns happen in the blink of an eye. I’ve heard many people complaining about the page turns being too slow. I see no reason why my Reader would have faster page turns than everyone else’s. So I ask you seriously . . . when you want to relax with a good book, is the blink of an eye REALLY too long to wait for the next page?
