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Originally Posted by dugbug
Let me ask a dumb question: Are we talking about searching the current book we are reading, or searching all of the material stored on the device (including I imagine MP3 titles)?
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I don't think this was a dumb question at all. One reason I haven't bought a Reader is because I want search, and when I think of search, I think of being able to search multiple books-- or more to the point, articles. I did a lot of that this weekend while writing a term paper. Fortunately Acrobat can search multiple PDFs for a string (at least, once I'd run the merely scanned articles through OCR), so I was able to find the references I was looking for without having to plough through all the articles again. That's the functionality I want in an eBook reader, but with a nice E Ink screen that will be easier to read, use less power, and generate less heat.
But I realize that many people just want a Reader to read fiction. I suspect I'll be buying an iLiad (which also doesn't have a built-in multibook search function, but maybe someone will create one, or at least I can get to the shell and use grep).