• DragonTypeWyvern
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      8 months ago

      I feel like if you need that it’s either a nonfiction which should have an appendix or a bad fiction.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        I prefer paper books, but I can definitely understand someone reading a good novel, especially a long one… or a novel in a series of novels… wanting the ability to do a quick search to look up some character or event they’ve forgotten about.

        I’m not a Frank Herbert fan, but I know his books are pretty dense and there’s a fair number of them, so if you’re a Frank Herbert fan, especially one reading the series for the first time, having the ability to do a quick search back to the third book when you’re reading the fifth would be pretty helpful.

        Another good example would be Tolkien. I assume you don’t think Tolkien is bad fiction.

      • Ludrol@szmer.info
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        8 months ago

        I am non-native English speaker and the ability to lookup words easily was very helpful for me.