My experience is much like yours: linear reading is much superior on an e-device. But for technical stuff, I haven&#x27;t found a reader device that gives me a good substitute for having multiple books open on my desk, with marked pages so I can flip between multiple locations.<p>One other thing that bugs me about e-readers is that they intentionally carry all the disadvantages of chopping text into discrete pages, when there&#x27;s no reason at all to do so. In particular, it bugs me that, at the bottom of a page, I&#x27;ve got to memorize the context before flipping to the next. As I say it, it seems more jarring than it is, but even so, it&#x27;s forcing a discontinuity that can interrupt the flow.<p>I just can&#x27;t fathom why they don&#x27;t do something to avoid that jump. Back in the early days of e-readers, I used software called &quot;iSilo&quot; on Palm and later PocketPC. This allowed me to configure it such that scrolling was in chunks of half a page. With this I could find any convenient spot (a paragraph or at least sentence break) on the lower half of the page, and choose to flip there. My previous &quot;cursor&quot; point would shift half way up the screen, and I could continue fluidly from there. I really wish Kindle allowed this.