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"Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...> writes: > For starters, I like books > and think that a good book has some kind of inherent worth - or at > least it should be so regarded. [...] > For me, the best of both worlds would be that I could test drive books > on line, buy paper copies of the best ones for a reasonable price, be > able to mark up and bookmark books on line somewhat like I can do with > paper ones Interesting. I'm usually reluctant to "mark up" paper books -- maybe it's part of my understanding of their inherent worth. Physical bookmarks have an important transient quality - I can move a bookmark, or remove it completely as my use of a book changes. A good book is one I can keep for a long time and use different "views" of it over time. Remarks on the margin, especially in ink, perpetuate my current view of the book. I prefer HTML books to PDF because I can keep a private, transient index into them. If I need to, I can "bookmark" a specific chapter. But more often I find "recently visited links"[1] feature in my browser quite sufficient here, precisely because of its transient nature. Ari. [1] Both the color change in links and URL autocompletion if I type one in. -- Elections only count as free and trials as fair if you can lose money betting on the outcome.
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