jim said:
You assume the reader has a personal computer.
yes i do. and i consider the iphone to be a computer. (it has a chip inside it, you know.) even the kindle has a computer chip inside it. it's just too bad that you can't program for it. of course, even if amazon keeps castrating the kindle, it's entirely possible they would put a reader-program on the thing which was capable of rending z.m.l. beautifully...
Some do not.
if you don't have a computer, then i simply can't tell you how you would use an e-book.
More importantly, many do not at that point in time when they decide they want to choose a new book to read, such as while sitting at an airport waiting for the plane to take off.
paper books remain delightful, in my eyes... *** jim, you seem to want to argue about all these unimportant things... what about those italics? -bowerbird