>you can't zoom on the images I enjoy picture books, which went through a golden age of illustration that ended when 32 bit computer graphics became available.

>you can't zoom on the images I enjoy picture books, which went through a golden age of illustration that ended when 32 bit computer graphics became available. Often I look at scans of picture books, and the experience is disappointing compared to printed paper. It would help if I had a giant A3 size tablet, so that I could see the whole illustration at once at the intended size and hold it like a book, but even if the scan has good resolution there's still the matter of gamma or contrast or color balance. I don't want to adjust these to some theoretical perfection, I want to adjust the actual lighting under which I look at an actual picture. So maybe a gigantic e-ink tablet could be ... as good. Searchability, it's true, is an advantage. Physical books offer an advantage in discoverability, though, because of the way flicking through the pages works: not only is it very fast, but you can see multiple pages at once while keeping the places with your fingers, utilizing basic monkey hardware to great advantage in ways which swiping hasn't yet replicated.