[KarlInOhio]

Now, for textbooks and technical material (I am an IT professor) it is not so great and for those I prefer my traditional hard/soft bound books. I’ve had students who have tried etexts and most were not very happy with the usability.

The page turning time needs to be faster and the bookmarking method needs to be better. I remember times when I had every finger on one hand marking a page I was referring to, plus a pen, a pencil and another smaller book used as an emergency bookmark. Maybe a full PC screen with windows to multiple locations in the book would help too.

[Travis McGee]

I agree with you. Ebook format works pretty well in a linear “text” like a long novel, where you are not constantly flipping around and referring to charts, graphs, photos, references etc. So for me, e-novels are just fine. But e-texts and e-references, not so much.

(My reference books also wind up highlighted, underlined, dog-eared, sticky noted, and “improved” in many other ways. The second time I use a reference book, I can glean the critical information in 1/4 of the time.

I don’t know how the solve this with ebooks.