There are still the problems of having to read on the screen or do a bulky print job. I'm much happier with the audiobooks but they must be read by humans not machine generated !
A plus is that you can easily search the full text. It also makes it easy to find raw material for fun tools like Wordle to create something like this
from a paragraph about Australia in Charles Darwin's Voyage of the beagle:or the same thing in Tagcrowd (based on word frequency)
although ant becoming being better bird browne cockatoo conical corn-field country crows disappeared diving easily enjoyed entomology escape european fatal feeding fly fortune hollow insect jets latter less lion-ant open paradoxus pitfall poor ride river scenery several shot specimen sport struggles tail took traversed trees uniformity valleys varied wearisome woodland
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We have IT books as ebooks in our library as you do not generally have to read them cover-to-cover. They can also be searched so chapters and paragraphs within the book on specific topics can be located.
Lynette
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