This is interesting because the one thing I can't stand about large electronic documents is that I can't remember where things are and things are constantly re-

This is interesting because the one thing I can't stand about large electronic documents is that I can't remember where things are and things are constantly re-flowing and appear different every time you look at them. In contrast with books/paper (that I grew up with) I "just know" exactly where I read things and more specifically what the page and paragraph of something looks like. I can grab the book, flip to approximately the right area, see the location and then find the passage. So in some respects the idea of storing the search rather than the content seems quite similar. Incidentally, annotations also provide strong anchors for this memory and a little doodle in the margins can "store" a lot of content for recall. Annotation capability on the internet seriously blows.