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Originally Posted by ziegl027
I believe that there is a great deal more overlap than some people (and apparently most reader producers) realize. As a leisure reader of novels, I often find myself confronted with situation where a "find" function would be helpful ("who the hell was that character again? I know he was introduced back in Chapter 3"). Since I often read multi-novel series, it would be nice to switch back easily and review a scene, too. Dictionary wouldn't be bad--I thought I knew about every obscure horse term it was possible to know but was recently thrown by "destrier". As a leisure reader of magazines and cookbooks, it would be nice to bookmark and tag a recipe I would like to try. And then when I tried it, to jot down a note or two ("subbed whole wheat flour, worked great!"). Lots of knitting and crochet patterns are electronic files (often PDF, some free, some pay), and Interweave Press is offering more and more e-books. And we fibery types are always changing something that we need to track (needle, yarn, gauge), and many of us work from charts that need to display properly. Don't think e-savvy knitters are much of a force? Right now there are over 2000 people active on Ravelry. That's right this second, people actually logged in (I note there are only about 100 here at the moment, and 400 some guests)--there are almost half a million registered users.
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Off topic - sorry.
It sounds as if a Kindle 2 would be a goood device for you.