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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
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.
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What you're saying is that the current implementation of eBooks hasn't matured yet, because it's still in it's early days. I don't think that's necessarily a problem with the idea of eBooks though. All of the points you make could certainly be solved with a more mature technology and implementation of that technology.
There was a point in time when email and the web were fairly difficult to use and you had to be pretty computer savy to even get on the internet. Obviously that isn't the case anymore.