I particularly enjoyed this part....
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Add to the equation that many digital books are OCR scans with broken tables and sloppy page breaks, and you have to wonder just how anyone thinks they can charge a near equivalent price for an inferior reading experience. A reading experience made inferior not because of the device, but because of a lack of consideration in the presentation. A reading experience that can be made better with a stronger focus on fundamentals.
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This is so very true, and it's a point that we - as consumers of ebooks and their requisite devices - have not loudly enough decried. I have purchased far too many ebooks that were formatted so horribly as to render them nearly unreadable because of how easily those formatting mistakes intrude on the creative interpretation of the work by eroding the transparency between imagination and the act of literary ingestion. When I begin to notice the physical presence of the words on the page instead of being swept away into the realms of imagination, the reading process is tainted without due cause.
I really enjoyed this well written article. Thank you for sharing.