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I skip pages, start in the middle of books, track back, have two or three books open at once sometimes. I haven't found an electronic interface that accomodates
by thanatropism 9y ago
I skip pages, start in the middle of books, track back, have two or three books open at once sometimes. I haven't found an electronic interface that accomodates my nonlinear style of consuming books. They just tell me I'm reading them wrong.
- creep 9y agoThis is exactly how I feel. I also take a lot of notes in the margins, and I love to underline. There isn't a single electronic interface that allows me to do this efficiently. I don't like writing word documents either, unless I'm working on a big project that I'll have to edit a lot. I also have a lot of books on the go and a huge backlist of things I'd like to read. The convenience of carrying around 100+ books in your pocket is so appealing so I experimented with using foxit reader to keep my PDFs and things on an iPad. I didn't read a single document all the way through because I literally had to also keep a notebook on me to write my comments in.
- MilnerRoute 9y agoYeah, even simple things like "See Figure 4" can become a big hassle in ebooks. (Is that on the next page? The page after?) And what you really want to do is re-read the text and then quickly look back at the figure -- which is just always going to be much easier when you're flipping back and forth between two pages that you're holding with your fingers. Maps is the other big thing. Reading a book about the Lewis and Clark expedition (or the Astoria fur-trading party), there's always one big map showing the entire route of the expedition, and you'll want to refer back to it several chapters later. Yes, you can still try to bookmark it in an ebook -- but accessing it is something like "Menu / My Bookmarks and Notes / Page forward, page forward, page forward, page forward...."