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liems · 11-03-2006, 09:53 PM

I am a fanatic book lover: not only that I read a lot of books, but the format and look and feel of the book matters a lot. So, for example: I will only buy the classic literature published by Penguin and not by --say-- Bantam publisher, because the Penguin books "feels" better in my hand and thus encourage my reading experience. Even when I encountered 2 Penguin editions of the same works, I would pick the one that aesthetically apeals to me more, which means which one I like the cover better.

So obviously all of these experiences are not there when you read an eBook version of those works. So, what I wish the next version of Sony Reader is to enable to re-produce the exact formating and look and feel of the books. Currently, even though, they are nicely formatted, they are not even close to the original traditional book format. This ranges from: font type/size, formating of paragraph, other stylized fonts or graphics, and of course front and back cover (which are absent today in the eBook format).

11-03-2006, 09:53 PM	#1
liems Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2006	The downside of eBook format I am a fanatic book lover: not only that I read a lot of books, but the format and look and feel of the book matters a lot. So, for example: I will only buy the classic literature published by Penguin and not by --say-- Bantam publisher, because the Penguin books "feels" better in my hand and thus encourage my reading experience. Even when I encountered 2 Penguin editions of the same works, I would pick the one that aesthetically apeals to me more, which means which one I like the cover better. So obviously all of these experiences are not there when you read an eBook version of those works. So, what I wish the next version of Sony Reader is to enable to re-produce the exact formating and look and feel of the books. Currently, even though, they are nicely formatted, they are not even close to the original traditional book format. This ranges from: font type/size, formating of paragraph, other stylized fonts or graphics, and of course front and back cover (which are absent today in the eBook format).