Making E-books feel like paper books

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Making E-books feel like paper books

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When I read on E-books, it helps to make it feel like a paper book. This helps me focus on the words more. E.g. some things I do are page turning and limiting words per page. What are some other ways to make E-books feel like paper books?
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I've found that the highlight function on my Kindle is very helpful to me! I don't highlight in paper books most of the time, but I like that the Kindle puts all of your highlights under one tab. Then I can revisit them when I am rereading a book or trying to share a certain section with a friend. It helps me focus as well.
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There is no way we can make e-book to look or feel like paperback. Paperbook has its own prestige that cannot be compared with the e books at any chance.
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Yes, when I read the ebook I feel like reading paperbook.
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I know the nook has a paper like feel.
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I also like to have that paper book feel. So I enable the turn page function and I can as well use different colours to highlight texts too
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Although this is somehow a complex move to assume a sentiment that is reading ebooks should make us feel reading paper books, there are a whole lot more methods out there that you should try. In my case, I change the background to a paper texture one and often use highlight and bookmark. Happy reading!
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Some apps might help you by their features and background colors.
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I have read more eBooks than paperbacks in the last 24 months. But then, there is this unique feeling that comes with reading paperbacks. For me, I doubt if eBooks will ever feel like paperbacks
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Despite my affinity with eBooks, they will never give me the feeling I get from reading paperbacks. It's for this reason that I buy the paperback of a book I have read its eBook.
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Bookworm101520 wrote: 21 Jul 2020, 17:23 I've found that the highlight function on my Kindle is very helpful to me! I don't highlight in paper books most of the time, but I like that the Kindle puts all of your highlights under one tab. Then I can revisit them when I am rereading a book or trying to share a certain section with a friend. It helps me focus as well.
I also love using the highlight function. It makes me happy.
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Jesse Shon Voyamba wrote: 20 Jan 2023, 08:03 Despite my affinity with eBooks, they will never give me the feeling I get from reading paperbacks. It's for this reason that I buy the paperback of a book I have read its eBook.
I get you. Nothing, absolutely nothing, beats the real deal.
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Post by abhilashrao1987 »

The latest models of e-books have been much improved. Page navigation, text type and displays are made to look more like real paper. But no matter I never get the satisfaction of reading like the way I read with paperback.
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I don't try to make it seem like a physical book. I enjoy kindle on its own and physical book on its own.
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