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Old 10-08-2015, 12:56 PM   #1
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What reader be it app or device offers the most "book like" experience?
As the title says what ebook reader (app or device) offers the most "book like" experience in your opinion? Is there anything out there that comes close to spoofing the experience of an honest to goodness dead tree?
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Old 10-08-2015, 01:07 PM   #2
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As the title says what ebook reader (app or device) offers the most "book like" experience in your opinion? Is there anything out there that comes close to spoofing the experience of an honest to goodness dead tree?
Nope

No weight / Heft
No torn (or now crumbling) pages
No paper cuts
No 3D physical motion to turn a page
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Old 10-08-2015, 01:33 PM   #3
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No frantically flipping through hundreds of pages to find a particular scene/description (indexed search is VERY unrealistic, not DTB at all).
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Kindle's new layout engine allowing improved dropcap and auto-hyphenation coupled with Bookerly's ligatures and the Kindle's (PW3 and Voyage) high resolution is very book-like.
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Old 10-08-2015, 03:03 PM   #5
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I was impressed with how much the Kindle 1 looked like a book. Honestly, I thought it looked great back then.
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Old 10-08-2015, 04:26 PM   #6
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I was impressed with how much the Kindle 1 looked like a book. Honestly, I thought it looked great back then.
I still like how my Nook Simple Touch looks,as far as that goes. The auto-hypenation made e-books feel much more 'book-like' on ePub readers than on the Kindle, but they have now caught up, to be fair.
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Marvin (on iOS) lets you apply a variety of colors and 'patterns' as the background. It's interesting, but I haven't formed an opinion about it as to whether it is (or can be) 'book-like'.
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Kindle's new layout engine allowing improved dropcap and auto-hyphenation coupled with Bookerly's ligatures and the Kindle's (PW3 and Voyage) high resolution is very book-like.
Maybe more book like than before, but after experiencing both the PW3 and the H2O, the H2O's better options and CSS customizing as well as the 6.8" screen give the H2O a more pBook like feel.
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Marvin (on iOS) lets you apply a variety of colors and 'patterns' as the background. It's interesting, but I haven't formed an opinion about it as to whether it is (or can be) 'book-like'.
That's actually less pBook like. I do use Marvin and it's not really pBook like.
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H2O totally feels like a book. Imho.
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...as well as the 6.8" screen give the H2O a more pBook like feel.
Screen size doesn't matter much to me. I usually read mass market paperbacks which are roughly the size of the average 6" screen. I do think the H20 is a lovely piece of tech though.
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Screen size doesn't matter much to me. I usually read mass market paperbacks which are roughly the size of the average 6" screen. I do think the H20 is a lovely piece of tech though.
Mass market is dying in place of the taller trade paperbacks. So the bigger screen of the H2O does make a difference.
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Really the only thing I would remotely care about having an ereader be like a pBook is the 3D page turn animation....just 'cuz I think it's fun! The ONLY benefit a pBook has over an eBook is that you OWN the pBook that you buy instead of licensing it... soooo wouldn't the more relevant question be: "Which reader gives the most enjoyable reading experience?"
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Mass market is dying in place of the taller trade paperbacks. So the bigger screen of the H2O does make a difference.
That's neither here nor there. The 6" screen size reminds me of the books I've read my whole life. Screen size is all just personal preference anyway.
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The book-like reading experience is much more to do with the ebook publisher than with the device IMO. The thing I miss most about the experience of reading paper books was not needing to fix all the spelling and formatting mistakes in ebooks.
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