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Perhaps constantly seeing and feeling the read and unread pages of the book reinforces the sense of when things happened in the story.
by jlcx 12y ago
Perhaps constantly seeing and feeling the read and unread pages of the book reinforces the sense of when things happened in the story.
- gojomo 12y agoI strongly suspect you're right. I know that before I could 'grep' digital text, when I remembered something I read in a book, I'd have a rough idea of its page-depth and position on page (in addition to general context) which aided in a visual-scan to re-locate. Perhaps an e-book interface with stronger indicators of progress could cure the discrepancy. (One idea: shift the entire page slightly inside imbalanced margins based on how deep in the book you are.) Or perhaps people who have only ever read e-books wouldn't be as dependent on pending-pages-physicality. Or maybe future Kindles could actually become flatter as you progress through the story, via some sort of deflation mechanism.
- thret 12y agoThere's nothing more annoying than remembering only that a certain quote you'd like to reference was on the bottom of a left-hand page of a book you finished last week!