[Jack Tingle]

Occasionally I go off on a rant against bloated featuritis in software, including eBook software. One recently seemed almost sensible. I'll paraphrase for your amusement:
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"Sure, go ahead and bloat up your eReader (hard or software) with bizarre features. Just remember to give the user the switches to TURN IT OFF!"

I delineated and ranted about the nutball features I'd seen people propose for eReaders and ebooks. (We'll skip that part.)

Then it occured to me that a lot of the features that Book 1.0 had, eReader/ebook makers were ignoring. Working tables of contents, complete indices, well organized lists of tables, figures, and references, and (in extremis) concordances, all seem missing from most ebooks. Rather than imbedded 3-D video in our ebooks, how about a table of contents that actually works?

What else are we missing that Book 1.0 (when well crafted) has, but ebooks don't?

Regards,
Jack Tingle