My position is that books are more interactive, because you can write on the pages or highlight important concepts.
I think for consumer reading, stuff you enjoy but you do not need to remember much, I would use an e-reader.
But for stuff that you want to remember forever, I would buy the book form.
The consumer stuff can be changed on the fly by the publishers,but the book form cannot.
I prefer real books by far. Especially books from the days when they used to have editors
Good point. Soon the only version of Huckleberry Fin will be cleansed each time it’s “printed” for Kindle.
I agree, especially for nonfiction. I do like e-books for mysteries and light novels to read in bed or take along on a trip. Also, a few of the books on my reading list have been available only as ebooks.
My position is that books are more interactive, because you can write on the pages or highlight important concepts.
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There is that. Was preparing a meal the other day using an old cookbook I have from my Mom. There are notes she’d written in the margins about this or that recipe. Touching the writing is like a connection to the past, although she is long gone.
The app GoodReader can do all that and more. The key is use PDF files and not Kindle or Apple readers. I use 7 different highlight colors, and 7 different underline colors. I can use boxes, ovals, freeform lines of various thickness and color with or without fill of various color and opaqueness. I can put text anywhere and use various sizes, fonts, or colors and add callouts with arrows to point to specific. I can create my own table of contents that captures the ideas I want to remember or pages I want to review. My markings look like works of art. With 128GB I can have thousands of books with me at all times. And I can extract pages and send them to others, like you if you’d like a sample.