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Originally Posted by Lemurion
I will completely agree that an eBook has less value than a decent hardcover. My Chicago Manual of Style was $55, and I have hardcover comic collections that were $75. I wouldn't pay anything like that for an eBook - but these are all very well-made high quality books and worth the money.
Having said that: before I started reading eBooks, much of my book budget went to mass-market paperback fiction, and I find eBooks to be a much better value proposition than mass-market paperbacks. E-ink isn't that much worse to my eyes - and the ability to resize the font depending on where I'm reading makes a huge difference to me - as does the ability to keep the whole series on the Reader.
(I know most people don't worry too much about resizing - and hence reflow - but I have progressive lenses, and when I'm lying in bed I'm reading through a different band than when I'm sitting in my chair. It's one of the reasons I started reading much less on paper before I went to eBooks.)
All books are not created equal - and a value proposition for one kind of book (and one reader) may not be the same for another.
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I understand that, Lemurion. I just do not see a genuine technological or business necessity for eBooks to fail to offer most of the benefits of regular books, while still having their own unique benefits (different font sizes, no per-page mass/volume, et cetera)... whereas, some days, it seems everyone else is convinced that font-resizing in and of itself is worth every conceivable (but, I am quite certain, entirely needless) sacrifice.
- Ahi