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I have a stack of books that I have not touched since getting a Kindle. I've purchased a few more, but these have all been books with lots of graphics. For those that are just text, there's no question that I prefer the ebook version for its convenience. It's true that you can't easily 'flip through' an ebook to find a passage (especially given the low page refresh rates of current e-ink readers), but I find that text search is usually more efficient and powerful than this anyway, at least on Kindle.
I've never been one to mark up or highlight books or take notes, but if I were, I probably wouldn't like ebooks as much, at least as they exist today. Kindle has annotation features, but I think these need to be developed more before they represent a replacement for, or improvement over, paper-based annotation. For example, it needs to be easier to share book notes with other people, across different reading platforms. Wouldn't it be cool to be able to 'overlay' some literary critic's (or the author's, or a friend's) commentary with the book you're reading? Or to create these for others? sort of like directors' commentary tracks on DVDs...
We're still in the infancy of electronic books. I trust they will continue to evolve and move beyond the metaphor of 'book' and bring us new ways of navigating the info-sphere and connecting with each other.
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