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While I agree that this is strictly worse than current document and eBook formats meant for computers, this inarguably not much worse than physical books. We co
by jimws 7y ago
While I agree that this is strictly worse than current document and eBook formats meant for computers, this inarguably not much worse than physical books. We couldn't have copied quotes or table of contents in a physical book.
- hos234 7y agoI get the users are just looking for ways of doing thing they like. Many won't know what features are available elsewhere. Sooner or later they will start grumbling about it. And then expect Zuck and his henchmen, to come up with retarded round about ways to provide the features. "We pay close attention to our cattle. Our new AI based cloud OCR can identify upto 40% of all words on a single page! You can even copy and paste some of them etc etc". I personally don't like reading books on the Kindle or Phone but do find the bookmarking/lookup/navigation features very useful and of course the ability to store a zillion books. Given all those advantages expect some Facebook exec to start drawing up master plans.
- grawprog 7y ago>We couldn't have copied quotes or table of contents in a physical book. Photocopiers have existed for quite a while.
- zwily 7y agoAnd you can screenshot an Instagram story...
- grawprog 7y agoBut can you easily take a highlighter and highlight sections, scribble notes and annotations on the margins, cross things out, doodle on a screenshot when you're bored?
- abakker 7y agoyeah, you open the screenshot in the photos app... but, still, I agree that the idiom of the device is made worse in this context.
- grawprog 7y agoAbout the only one of those that's maybe easyish to do is highlighting things. Working with text in just about any photo editing app is a pain in the ass, scribbling and doodling is pretty impossible with a mouse or touch screen(though if you can do this well I commend you) and all those things take longer and are more difficult than just picking up a pen and doing it.
- edmundsauto 7y agoYeah, especially on a phone or tablet. At least on iOS, when you snap a screenshot, you see a thumbnail. Clicking on that takes you to an interface where you can do that right away.
- naravara 7y agoPeople used to copy quotes all the time. I've known older folks who kept entire journals of memorable and meaningful quotations from books and poems they've read, sometimes annotated with a little note for context or what they were thinking when they read it. Usually with a page number reference. Other people would put book darts or little sticky notes in their books or dog ear pages where they've highlighted the quotations.
- krzat 7y agoPhysical books will not suddenly disappear one day due to a bug or business decision.