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Try it yourself, it’s pretty cool like an instant ebook.

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I find the top comment quite cynical, it’s literally the same as reading text on an ebook or even paperback. IMO once you get engrossed in a story the medium falls away. It’s cool that people are experimenting with a platform in a way maybe not originally intended, but that’s the beauty of it. No one can really foresee all the things you can do with a new platform/technology.

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They have broken the internet by banning hyperlinks. So naturally everything starts happening inside the app. How would you do copy a quote, table of contents or term lookups? I can't even check out the links u posted cause it asks me to login.

While I agree that this is strictly worse than current document and eBook formats meant for computers, this inarguably not much worse than physical books. We couldn't have copied quotes or table of contents in a physical book.

I get the users are just looking for ways of doing thing they like. Many won't know what features are available elsewhere. Sooner or later they will start grumbling about it.

And then expect Zuck and his henchmen, to come up with retarded round about ways to provide the features. "We pay close attention to our cattle. Our new AI based cloud OCR can identify upto 40% of all words on a single page! You can even copy and paste some of them etc etc".

I personally don't like reading books on the Kindle or Phone but do find the bookmarking/lookup/navigation features very useful and of course the ability to store a zillion books. Given all those advantages expect some Facebook exec to start drawing up master plans.

>We couldn't have copied quotes or table of contents in a physical book.

Photocopiers have existed for quite a while.

And you can screenshot an Instagram story...

But can you easily take a highlighter and highlight sections, scribble notes and annotations on the margins, cross things out, doodle on a screenshot when you're bored?

yeah, you open the screenshot in the photos app...

but, still, I agree that the idiom of the device is made worse in this context.

About the only one of those that's maybe easyish to do is highlighting things. Working with text in just about any photo editing app is a pain in the ass, scribbling and doodling is pretty impossible with a mouse or touch screen(though if you can do this well I commend you) and all those things take longer and are more difficult than just picking up a pen and doing it.

Yeah, especially on a phone or tablet. At least on iOS, when you snap a screenshot, you see a thumbnail. Clicking on that takes you to an interface where you can do that right away.

People used to copy quotes all the time. I've known older folks who kept entire journals of memorable and meaningful quotations from books and poems they've read, sometimes annotated with a little note for context or what they were thinking when they read it. Usually with a page number reference.

Other people would put book darts or little sticky notes in their books or dog ear pages where they've highlighted the quotations.

Physical books will not suddenly disappear one day due to a bug or business decision.

I did just try...but I noticed they require a login/account.

I usually don't have this issue with my ebooks/paperbacks.

Did you have to login to an online website to buy that book/reader? How did you procure your ebook? What about the book, did you have to create a library card (login)?

> it’s literally the same as reading text on an ebook or even paperback

Not literally. On an ebook I can add inline notes and then jump to them later (I occasionally do this when a passage sparks an idea). And search text.

What ebook reader are you using? I've added a few notes to some books on my Paperwhite Kindle and it's a terrible experience. I have no idea where the notes are and, depending on the document type, it may or may not be synced to all the places I read Kindle books.

The iPad with the Pencil seems promising. If I could underline and scribble notes (that are recognized and indexed) it might be good enough to move me off of Kindle and their great e-ink screens. I have no idea if iBooks does that though.

I’ve been waiting for this comment just so I can point out it is in fact, literally, the same :P

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