My experience is much like yours: linear reading is much superior on an e-device. But for technical stuff, I haven't found a reader device that gives me a good

My experience is much like yours: linear reading is much superior on an e-device. But for technical stuff, I haven't found a reader device that gives me a good substitute for having multiple books open on my desk, with marked pages so I can flip between multiple locations. One other thing that bugs me about e-readers is that they intentionally carry all the disadvantages of chopping text into discrete pages, when there's no reason at all to do so. In particular, it bugs me that, at the bottom of a page, I've got to memorize the context before flipping to the next. As I say it, it seems more jarring than it is, but even so, it's forcing a discontinuity that can interrupt the flow. I just can't fathom why they don't do something to avoid that jump. Back in the early days of e-readers, I used software called "iSilo" on Palm and later PocketPC. This allowed me to configure it such that scrolling was in chunks of half a page. With this I could find any convenient spot (a paragraph or at least sentence break) on the lower half of the page, and choose to flip there. My previous "cursor" point would shift half way up the screen, and I could continue fluidly from there. I really wish Kindle allowed this.