Your experience of e-books

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Silktie, thank you for responding so quickly to what must seem like a very odd request for information

This point interests me:

(07-03-2011 06:34 AM)Silktie Wrote:  I still love to have an actual book in my hands though, and will continue to buy those I read in e-book form that are really good and I know I will want to read again.

The corporate library in which I work (which is becoming more corporate by the day!) has, in recent times, conducted a number of surveys of its user constituency. Almost inevitably, one of the overriding themes among respondents is that of a wish for more, and improved, access to technical and professional information online. In response to this, we now offer a variety of journal subscriptions as digital editions. We are, at the same time, receiving an increasing number of requests for hard copies of the same titles. People like to turn a page, it seems, even where they have suggested they would rather not. Furthermore, as you indicate, the preference is for the object itself, rather than for a representative iteration thereof: our users want the journal, they don't want the pages they can print from the digital edition.