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I'm not surprised ebooks still haven't taken over the printed book in popularity, considering the purposefully horrid user experience of most/all ebooks. As it
by wu-ikkyu 10y ago
I'm not surprised ebooks still haven't taken over the printed book in popularity, considering the purposefully horrid user experience of most/all ebooks. As it stands ebooks are still constrained by the mores of the age of the printing press, namely the prohibition of copy/paste which is one of the primary advantages to digitizing information.
- burkaman 10y agoWhat ereader does not allow copy/paste? I don't think I've ever run into that.
- valine 10y agoBoth kindle and iBooks have their own implementation of copy paste that prevents you from copying too much at a time, and auto inserts citations into your clipboard. The kindle copy functionality feels particularly sluggish and hard to use.
- JulianMorrison 10y agoI find also that the vast majority of ebooks are very crudely formatted compared to tree-books. And they often have instantly obvious glitches that would have been picked up by the most oblivious proofreader. It seems that publishers regard them as a "digital byproduct".