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Originally Posted by Quoth
But without discoloured pages, dust, smell, mould, smudged too heavy ink, too small font to save pages, spine glue cracking and letting pages fall out, damage from slugs (yes, they eat paper & card!), woodworm, bad forrmating choices that can't be over-ridden. Oh, and inability to click/tap on a word for definition, highlight/annotate/bookmark and copy to PC. We went paperless on proofing 10 years ago due to eink based annotation. Also stopped using DTP packages over a decade ago using PDF export instead from LO Writer. The Paper version is reformatted source used for the epubs. The big publishing houses do it the other way round which is more work and more errors on the ebook. The ebook is used to proof content, and then the only concern on later PDF is layout/style/format, never content.
Really any decently formatted simple AZW3/KF8 or epub2 is better than mobi, old ebooks on Palm OS or Windows CE, and many paperbacks on even a 10+ year old 6" 167 dpi ereader, or Apps like Aldiko Basic, Lithium, Pocketbook etc on any Android from a 4.3" screen or larger. I've about 3,000 paper books and perfer the ereader for novels.
What best about Kobo or Kindle Native ereaders, expecially Kobo, is the metadata browsing. Filesystem browsing is 1960s. Proper metadata based library interfaces like on a Kobo are a minimum for 1000s ebooks.
We have about 500+ bought ebooks over 10+ years and about 6500 PD ebooks dating back over 20 years.
I'll go back to KOReader once it has metadata browsing like native Kobo on Author, Title, Collection, Series etc. I don't care about file names or directory structures, neither has any real Document management or Library management system for the User/GUI for nearly 40 years.
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Oh, I wasn’t saying pbooks are superior, I typeset pbooks for a living, but I prefer ebooks for reading. My hand still reaches out sometimes to highlight or search a word when reading a paperbook
By "pbook experience" I meant a nicely typeset book, with footnotes at the bottom of the page--out of the box. My needs are probably different than yours, I browse and organize my library externally (Calibre connect can assist with that), the Kindle is just a place where the ebooks land after I've done the browsing and I've chosen what I want to read.