Thread: How big is that e-book anyway?
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Old 09-03-2009, 10:52 AM   #103
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Originally Posted by msundman View Post
There are two different concepts here:
1) These things fit well together (e.g., a picture and the text describing the picture).
2) This location can be sensibly referred to (e.g., "now open up your books at page 42").

I don't think anybody opposes the former concept (it becomes more difficult in e, though, since a reader in some particular configuration can't necessarily fit some given content on the screen at the same time), but the latter concept is simply deprecated.
Are you basing your sagely authoritative statement on anything other than your experience of using an eBook reading device? If so, please elaborate. If not, we'll have to agree to disagree.

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