As for E vs. P, my preference remains the latter. I like being able to change the type, especially when I want the font weight to be heavier. What’s more, I appreciate the cost and convenience factors.

E books also appeal to me as a library advocate interested in the needs of rural people, not just urban types. Paper books can serve as gateways to a much wider selection of digital books that people can enjoy from anywhere.

I’ll welcome thoughts from others, in regard to either the Resolutions aspect or the other topics you’re broaching.

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1. Extract notes and take notes with as marvelous a UI as LiquidText, a iOS app that is currently restricted to non-protected PDFs. Imagine having a digital cookbook in which you could make notes of your own and that wouldn’t look Kindle-ugly.

2. Build in and allow users to add a feature that’d be like Scrivener’s keyword feature. For Scrivener, an author can keyword every passage with a particular character and, to check the flow of his story, read just them in sequence. That’s great for writing. It’d also be great for reading, since it would allow readers to just read the passages on a particular topic.

I can give an example. I just finished reading Stephen Bungay’s definitive book on the Battle of Britain, _The Most Dangerous Enemy_. One of the most important figures in it is the person who organized Britain’s air defense system, Keith Park. More than anyone else, he is why the Germans lost that battle. I’d love to be able to reread the book, telling it to show me just the passages about him. You can read about his incredible life here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Park

Both as-yet-unimplemented features are illustrations of why I’ve returned to printed books. Roughly two decades into the era of the ebook, they continue to fail to achieve what they might achieve. They continue to be little more than ugly versions of printed books.

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