Bonus is not a bonus

[howyoudoin]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Isn't Patterson the one who clogs up the ebookstores with "FREE Preview First xx Chapters of ............" books?

I'd like to do something horrible to him simply for causing a mess... but it was clearly stated, was it not?

Yeah, if they state it clearly beforehand, it's not an issue, IMO. It clogs up the search results, but that's a minor annoyance.

[Dazrin]

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

Yeah, if they state it clearly beforehand, it's not an issue, IMO. It clogs up the search results, but that's a minor annoyance.

Side question: I am just curious, but how often do you actually search in a (fiction) e-book? I am sure all the instances I have searched in a fiction book would fit on one hand, with at least a thumb left over, so I am wondering how much that matters to most people. I use the search (or the index feature) in a couple different Bibles on the Kindle, but rarely on anything else.

[howyoudoin]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Side question: I am just curious, but how often do you actually search in a (fiction) e-book? I am sure all the instances I have searched in a fiction book would fit on one hand, with at least a thumb left over, so I am wondering how much that matters to most people. I use the search (or the index feature) in a couple different Bibles on the Kindle, but rarely on anything else.

I was referring to searching in an ebookstore.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Side question: I am just curious, but how often do you actually search in a (fiction) e-book? I am sure all the instances I have searched in a fiction book would fit on one hand, with at least a thumb left over, so I am wondering how much that matters to most people. I use the search (or the index feature) in a couple different Bibles on the Kindle, but rarely on anything else.

Originally Posted by howyoudoin

I was referring to searching in an ebookstore.

Yeah, read the post howyoudoin was responding to :

Originally Posted by eschwartz

Isn't Patterson the one who clogs up the ebookstores with "FREE Preview First xx Chapters of ............" books?

I'd like to do something horrible to him simply for causing a mess... but it was clearly stated, was it not?

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Dazrin

Side question: I am just curious, but how often do you actually search in a (fiction) e-book? I am sure all the instances I have searched in a fiction book would fit on one hand, with at least a thumb left over, so I am wondering how much that matters to most people. I use the search (or the index feature) in a couple different Bibles on the Kindle, but rarely on anything else.

I use the search facility quite a lot on my Kindle in fiction books. Mainly to find the last mention of a character who hasn't appeared for a while in a long book, so I can remind myself where they previously appeared. Particularly if it's a book I've put to one side for a while and come back to reading again.

However, the really essential use for search is in non-fiction books, and that's very important indeed. Essential, in fact. I read a lot of non-fiction for my Egyptology degree.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I use the search facility quite a lot on my Kindle in fiction books. Mainly to find the last mention of a character who hasn't appeared for a while in a long book, so I can remind myself where they previously appeared. Particularly if it's a book I've put to one side for a while and come back to reading again.

I like X-Ray for this but must remember that I can actually search backward when X-Ray is missing in books. I am bad at remembering names and sometimes the author do not give enough clues to who a person is and trust that the reader will remember the name.