Comments on: Google Book Search: a name, not an initiative http://walt.lishost.org/2005/11/google-book-search-a-name-not-an-initiative/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Dorothea Salo http://walt.lishost.org/2005/11/google-book-search-a-name-not-an-initiative/comment-page-1/#comment-2269 Dorothea Salo Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:08:19 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=174#comment-2269 The sad thing is, NetLibrary books still cling to the page-at-a-time reading experience too, vastly less defensibly. I can’t abide reading from NetLibrary, and I’ve been reading whole books onscreen since I was a wee tyke in college.

The page-citation issue can be solved by unobtrusive page-boundary indicators, which require no action from the reader and therefore don’t interrupt the reading nearly as much as requiring clicky-clicky “page turns.”

I can understand and respect love for the physical book. Love for the physical PAGE utterly bewilders me.

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