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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
"Real"? The books I read on my Libra are not imaginary. There was a time when "books" were the "ebooks" of their day, after all.
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Baz2004 simply meant that many people are in still in the habit of reading physical, printed books rather than reflowing electronic ones. And there
are certain books that can't reflow without ceasing to be the books the authors wrote. Derrida's
Glas is one example; Roussel's
New Impressions of Africa is another (I learned about the Roussel when I tried to replace my physical copy with the ebook; the system of hundreds of parens within parens doesn't work without pages to flip).
You could say that PDFs cover the non-reflowable content, and I'd agree with you personally, but someone else's preferences are not an offense against mine or yours.
Anyway.
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Originally Posted by davidfor
All three of the devices you mention have page turning button. Maybe that is why people are buying them. . . . And we have plenty of people here stating they prefer the 6" readers. . . .
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Without intending any disrespect to JSWolf, I would agree with your points. I find the Clara esp. convenient, as I did the Sony PRS-350 years ago. Both ereaders function effectively as electronic paperbacks.
Our subjective preferences probably shouldn't be taken as objective truths, even if the majority of consumers agree with us. And to be honest, I'm not sure that the majority agrees with any of us. Otherwise, Kobo e-readers would have the level of popularity they deserve.