Ebook advantages? Costs less for books Read in dark without

>>8999228

>doing underlining/annotation/marginalia on an ebook

no thanks. but if you like them then happy reading.

>>8999228
built in dictionary
my very favorite feature

>>8999235
I admittedly don't do a lot of annotations and highlights but it does work.
I like e-books mostly for the convenience, being able to carry around a dozen different anthologies on poetry is just cool.

>>8999228
Best thing about e-readers is the Gutenberg Project. You need never buy another book.

Worst thing? Just try flicking back to check something you read three chapters ago ...

>>8999516
Well, you can search for keywords.

>>8999516
>Just try flicking back to check something you read three chapters ago
ctrl+f

>>8999523
>>8999524
>71 matches, beginning on page 3

>>8999563
Well you have to know what you're searching for usually.

They're great and I used one constantly in the past. Nowadays I tend to mostly read on the phone when I'm not at home - the convenience of not having to carry another device trumps the advantages of a reader for me.

>>8999228

Travelling. You can take your library everywhere with you. Only issue I found was that if I needed to flip back and forth in a book because of the multitude of characters it has, or events (longer novels specifically where you tend to forget events/characters because s0 much happens in such a short time)

>>8999582
Yeah, but flipping back and forth between different charts, and paragraphs is a pain on ebooks.

>>8999641
Well you can always bookmark pages or highlight certain passages so you can easily return to them. At least that's how it works on my Kindle.

>>8999582
>And how will you inquire into a thing when you are wholly ignorant of what it is? Even if you happen to bump right into it, how will you know it is the thing you didn't know?

>>8999645
Perhaps it gets more convenient when you get more used to it. Ebooks have always felt clunky to me, especially when dealing with textbooks that include charts, formulas, and diagrams in general.

>>8999652
That might be, I assume those are mostly in PDF and/or magazine size? I suppose it's not what ebook readers are made for (tablets are preferable for things of magazine size)

>>8999652

I mean to be fair, textbooks are clunky irl too

>>8999235
Since I buy used books a lot I find and read a lot of annotations.

99% of times my feeling is that they can't possibly serve any other purpose than to make the annotator feel like a cool guy.