Yes, me too. Even though, I read a lot at the internet and in general, documents in electronic format, books have completely different feeling.
I find the electronic documents very useful, in cases when I want to find quickly something specific (using search button), or to read at work (I can’t bring a book to the work with me), also in order to keep notes (I hate to write inside my books, when I find it so comfortable to have my notes written next to the book-text to which they refer to). But on the other hand, I want to have the book; to hold it in my hands; to browse through it, feeling the pages; to speak to it (yes, I am opening discussions with my books); to read it before falling asleep and leave it on the bedside during the night. Somehow printed electronic documents never give the same feeling.
What I really want is both. I have thought before that I want the books that I am buying, to be accompanied by a CD with the text in pdf format. I don’t know about other places, but here is impossible to find something like that.
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