eBooks — not quite there yet.

Recently I bought a simple eBook read­er online. My wife has one too, from a dif­fer­ent man­u­fac­turer. All’s good; they both work great and make it easi­er to read books in situ­ations where turn­ing pages is harder than press­ing a but­ton (on the tread­mill, for example). It’s also great to have a nice light device that I can carry with me in a form-factor thin­ner than most paper­backs. Or should I say, almost all’s good; unlike a phys­ic­al book, we can’t share our pur­chased eBooks between our two dif­fer­ent devices eas­ily. Even if they’re in the ‘port­able’ ePub format. …more

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