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Originally Posted by usuallee
One particular sentence baffled me though as it is so completely, demonstrably false: "Skimming through pages...remains impossible in digital books." Huh?? Unless he's clinging to the archaic notion that "pages" can only be made of paper, and absolutely nothing else, ever. I mean...you can obviously skim through an ebook if so desired.
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You can in theory skim through an ebook but the experience on most ebook readers leaves a lot to be desired and isn't anywhere as convenient as leafing and skimming through a physical book. There's less immediacy to the experience because you have to navigate through an interface as opposed to a physical book where you have direct, immediate access to the pages. You can get a similar experience scrolling through a PDF on a computer but that facilitates a different type of experience and comes with all the issues bound up with both PDFs and computers as eReaders.