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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Can't argue with that point. A bookcase that contains only an eReader doesn't exactly impress the friends, neighbors, and guests with one's intellectual prowess, does it?
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I didn't mean "to show off." I meant, when I've asked someone to come over & watch the kids while husband & I go out to a movie, it's nice to offer her something to read. And "browse this pbook shelf" is much easier than "here's my computer, and here's the folder where most of the ebooks are kept, sorted by author and series, and here's the Sony Reader, and you can scroll through its listings ten at a time and see if one of those catches your interest. No, there's no back cover blurb to read, and no front cover artwork unless you open the book, and then you'll have to navigate back to that space in the listings to look at the next one."
It's harder to share ebooks. There's software that helps (like Calibre's cover view), but it doesn't mesh well with the ebook reader hardware.