Comments on: Check Out https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/01/27/check-out-815/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: January 27, 2016 Truth2Freedom Briefing Report (US•World•Christian) | Truth2Freedom's Blog https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/01/27/check-out-815/#comment-48745 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:51:01 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=23062#comment-48745 […] Check Out […]

]]> By: Davidathome https://headhearthand.org/blog/2016/01/27/check-out-815/#comment-48744 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:06:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=23062#comment-48744 The main problem with ebooks for me, and no doubt for huge numbers of people, is that they are much more difficult to `quickly get to the heart of’.
This is related to Michael Hyatt’s point “Ebooks are more difficult to navigate”, but many gloss over what I feel is the main issue. Namely, when one cracks a new book, particularly a nonfiction work, and particularly if one reads a lot of books, one wishes to quickly get some visceral `knowledge’ over it; know basically what its `all about’ at a heart level. With a print book this happens rather quickly. The `nonlinear’ and multidimensional old-fashioned jump-around, plus flip/skim, is far far more efficient at this than the clunky ‘linear’ variant of skimming one does with an e-book, where one largely is doing a variant of scrolling forward along a line. As Michael Kozlowski says, “imagine if Google Maps allowed people to navigate street by individual street, as well as to teleport to any specific address, but prevented them from zooming out to see a neighborhood” [or sector of a city].

This decrease in efficiency and increase in difficulty is an obstacle that in practice means that very many books suddenly become much less likely of ever being read.

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