Re:'Library Anxiety' and What Librarians Do to Help
by stinkytaco on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @12:27PM
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Perhaps, but the add-ons are incredibly easy to use and flexible based on user needs. Need colors for your bookmarks? What about inspirational slogans or funny pictures? Want to use your font increasing plugin on a different book or even a non-book item like your food packaging or crafts? All easily done. You don't need to get your add-ons or books from a single, central repository.
Finally, though search is lacking, users have developed some clever ways to overcome that issue over time including indexing and tables of contents.
Books are great, but are really quite feature-poor. You frequently need to install add-ons to get even the most basic capability - like bookmarking, or increasing font size. You definitely don't get search, a built-in dictionary, or the ability to trivially share excerpts.
All in all, I would definitely recommend this product to users with good eyesight and memory, but other potential users may want to go ahead and upgrade to ebooks.