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by mszyndel 4126 days ago
> it's not very easy to leaf through an ebook and to quickly jump from section to section

This is available on Kindle for quite some time now. Tap on top to show menu and then slide you finder on bottom bar - preview of pages will show and you can look back and forth without changing your current position.

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It's an improvement, but not nearly as easy to use as leafing through a physical book. I'm thinking of the use-case where you're solving exercises in one place but also want to sometimes go back to the theory or to a reference section in the back.
This is probably as easily solved by just having multiple ereaders, honestly.
Have an ereader for every book! It's flawless!
Within reason, it probably is cheaper and more workable for many people to just have two or three ebook readers than the myriad of physical books and shelving necessary for them.

Additionally, for textbook style things, it was already common to have "student handbooks" that go along with the book.