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My odd problem with e-books
I have been reading nook books on the iPad. It is convenient and for the most part I like it. I especially like that I can read under the covers without a flashlight, because the iPad is back lit. I use the nook app, because a close friend has a nook and we can share.
I do have one complaint though. I do not like being surprised by things in books, especially death. I do enjoy mysteries and suspense novels, but with a real book I will flip through the last few pages quickly to see if the main characters are all alive. That way I can enjoy the book without worrying too much. With an e-reader it feels like cheating, since you have to chose exactly which chapter you are going to open to, and it is harder to just casually flip through the pages.
If you have an e-reader or iPad what do you like about reading on it, and what bugs you about it?
Edited to add: I know this is a really random post, but I am currently reading a suspense novel that opens with a scene from the end, and I really want to see what happens before I continue reading, and I am finding it frustrating.
Re: My odd problem with e-books
LOLOL, that is one of my weird quirks too - I like to have a general idea of what happens at the end, who betrays whom, etc., and ebooks kind of take that away. H says it's better for me bc it means I can't cheat, lol. so I've gotten used to it.
So that is probably the biggest thing I don't like about ebooks - how it's harder to flip through pages. I don't read non-fiction on my nook bc when I read nonfiction I tend to flip back and forth a LOT, especially if there are charts or tables or a timeline at the back or something, and that's a much bigger PITA with the nook.
But everything else I love. I love that I can start a book on one device and finish it on another, I love how easy it is to get books, I love the e-ink (I do read books on my iphone and ipad but I prefer the actual nook since I'm in front of a computer all day), I love how much faster I read on them for whatever reason, I love that I always have a book with me,I love traveling with one, etc etc.
I'm so obsessed with my nook haha.
Yes - the "no flipping/skimming" is the worst part of the Kindle IMO.
One of the 1st books I read on it was a sort of complicated story and I need to flip around to revisit old events - it was a total PITA to do that on the Kindle and at a certain point, I kinda gave up.
See my other post below about the non-fiction book I just read that's like 50% bibliography and notes, etc. and it wasn't even a scholarly non-fiction, so that annoyed me more - and it was ~$12. Rip off
This is my problem too. I recently read The Girl Who Played With Fire...I had a very hard time keeping the secondary characters straight because they all have very similar Swedish names. It was driving me crazy that I couldn't flip back and forth to figure out who people were.