[disconcision]

i mostly agree... i think a lot of people haven't tried the more recent higher-end e-readers... i'd say both the oasis and the kobo forma are getting quite close to strict improvements on the trade paperback... i still love a good, well-worn <400 page mass-market paperback sometimes though, truly the greatest height of the dead-tree format. e-readers haven't seen dramatic technical improvement, but response times have gotten a lot faster, and manufacturers have pretty much all finally figured out physical buttons for page turning is the way to go.

last time i read a trade paper, the weight and lighting issues dominated any of the pleasant tactility of paper.

that said, i do miss the random-access characteristics of physical books: being able to have fingers between multiple pages to skip between sections and the ability to quickly visually binary-search for something. these seem solvable but require some master UI work

[qu4z-2]

> finally figured out physical buttons for page turning is the way to go

Oh thank goodness. I'm not sure how many more years my Kindle 4 has in it...

[ben_w]

My Kindle Keyboard only died at the start of November, FWIW.