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Originally Posted by omk3
What is a "complete and better experience" in your mind?
Do you want ebooks or ebook readers to smell of paper? To become yellow and musty with age? Do you want them to play a sound when you turn a page? Do you want to be able to rip them apart? To change their weight according to the size of the book? To make it easy to accidentally turn two pages at once (I do it with paper books all the time, and wonder why the continuity suddenly doesn't make sense). To give you paper-cuts on demand? To be awkward to hold open when you reach the middle of a thick book?
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Don't forget the joy of turning a page and finding a squashed fly that you have to scrape off with your fingernails before you can read the words underneath.