Thread: Sony Reader: What do we want from searching? (poll)
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Old 12-15-2006, 10:26 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by Mycropht
I really believe that e-book device should surpass paper book reading experience in order to be successful. The two features that would do the trick for me are search and dictionary lookup. As already mentioned, what the search should do depends also on a book.
Right about that!
Asides from the Iliad no one has addresed this properly. "Practicality of use" wise, the paper book has some other advantages like sharing, price and the fact that you can fold corners to mark a page and the best; annotations in the margins. What makes a computing device superior is really a searching engine. An emphasis on this point is critical. Oh! and not to forget multiple books on the same device, but this in itself can be a drawback because if you loan your reader you deprive yourself of the other books on it. There paper has an advantage.

I'm sure I'll get fire for the price point. (deep breath!) Tally up the whole thing: Price of ebook + price of reader + price of SDcards + price of COMPUTER + not to forget the energy usage(during the related usage) of reader, computer and peripherals. Whew!

Don't get me wrong. I prefer the ebook reader for many other factors also that has been described over and over on these pages. What I'm getting to is this. A DESIGN OF AN EBOOK READER HAS TO MAKE IT BETTER THAN PAPER BOOKS IN ALL RESPECTS.
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