This appears to hamper browsing, a popular method, especially in public libraries, of selecting reading materials. Furthermore, book owners sometimes claim that e-books will not become popular because they can't be displayed on bookshelves for either pride or easy access. Though these problems are difficult, solutions are possible. Here are my ideas. The simplest solution for browsing e-books is to print out covers that can be handled and read by patrons in the library.
Many libraries now organize the jackets of videos in bins.
People can browse through, reading the jackets. An author search not only retrieves titles, but further clicking retrieves the full-text for browsing. Innovative Interfaces and netLibrary are implementing this capability . E-book browsing can be done from home. This capacity is already provided by netLibrary .