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While electronic textbooks do let you skip randomly between pages, it would end up being a mixture of memorizing page numbers and looking at the table of conten

While electronic textbooks do let you skip randomly between pages, it would end up being a mixture of memorizing page numbers and looking at the table of contents. Have you ever actually used a Kindle textbook? There's a bookmark feature that allows you to immediately jump to preselected pages in the book. It's infinitely more useful than having a bunch of stupid physical placeholders in a textbook that you need to jump around with. Also, I can search my textbook. Can you?

Goronmon 15y ago
Also, I can search my textbook. Can you? Yes, it's called an Index.
- Ronkdar 15y ago
  I would like for this to be a valid argument, but in at least 3/4 of the textbooks I own, the indices are such trash that they're not even worth looking at. The Table of Contents is often faster.
- Locke1689 15y ago
  Not unless your book's index contains every word and phrase in the book.