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Paper books have search in three forms: flipping quickly to scan for information, a chapter index, and a concept index in the back. There's nothing fundamental
by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Paper books have search in three forms: flipping quickly to scan for information, a chapter index, and a concept index in the back.
There's nothing fundamental stopping e-books from being random access, type in the page number and there you are. Then again, e-books can sometimes lose page numbers altogether.
e-books don't come with DRM or a record of purchases if you torrent them or get them from Gutenberg, whereas you cannot conveniently steal a paper book.
Just some more pros and cons I thought of.
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- unimpressive 13y ago>Paper books have search in three forms: flipping quickly to scan for information, a chapter index, and a concept index in the back. An E-book probably has the last two as well. These are almost ineffectual compared to direct word search. >e-books don't come with DRM or a record of purchases if you torrent them or get them from Gutenberg, whereas you cannot conveniently steal a paper book. Sure, but if you do buy a paper book at least you can sell it. You will never be able to recoup any of the money in your ebook library.