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For all the advantages of reading with a screen, it hasn’t yet supplanted all the benefits of a printed book. For instance, flipping back and forth between two
by cgriswald 6y ago
For all the advantages of reading with a screen, it hasn’t yet supplanted all the benefits of a printed book. For instance, flipping back and forth between two or three pages is much easier and faster with a printed book. Put your finger in the book, read, flip back, read.
Versus, say, a reader app: Bookmark the page. Go to the other page (perhaps by “Go to page...”), bookmark that page. Now click “bookmarks” and select the first page, read, click bookmarks, select the second page, read. And that assumes you don’t already have so many bookmarks that you have to scroll.
I can write in a book. I can forget it behind and it’ll probably be there (and if not, it’s probably cheaply replaced). I can lend it. etc
I love my e-reader, but I still need (and love) books.
- ghaff 6y agoebooks are fine if you're mostly just reading linear text. They're also mostly good if they're just a reference that you're looking things up in. They tend to be less good when there are a lot of photos/graphics (though I've mostly made peace with well-designed guidebooks), footnotes, and things you want to bookmark a lot like cookbooks.
- EliRivers 6y agoAye. My reader (which is one of clutch of Sony Readers I'm keeping alive, which for various reasons ended up my preferred reader) is an excellent substitute for a stack of novels I'll read front to back, and that's it. The reader wins on weight and volume, which for a stack of novels is a serious inconvenience. For everything else thus far, the paper version wins.