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Originally Posted by uebyn
One of my greatest pleasure is to stroll in the bookstore and discovering books - sometimes by their cover, other times by their spines. In any case, I pick up a book, briefly read its synopsis, and if it interests me, I will read the first page. If the first page intrigues me, and I have spare cash, I will buy it on the spot. Sometimes, if I feel like it, I will stop right at a cafe to read the book over a nice cup of coffee. One of the simple pleasures of life...
With ebooks, you don't get that.
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The only aspects of the described procedure that you cannot functionally reproduce with ebooks are the physical and social experience of going to a nice place and spending some time there. Functionally you may treat, for instance, amazon like a very well stocked book store where you can look at covers, access synopses and read samples as you can in a store.