The one problem I have with the e-book readers is that the interfaces are, frankly, terrible.

For Ebrary
While reading _Specters of the Atlantic_ in ebrary, to navigate through pages I have to read, scroll down the page, get to the bottom of the page, then scroll back up to the top of the page in order to click a button to get to the next page. This is absurd. There is no reason why the text cannot just fit to the screen. Google does it with any ebook you purchase from the google book store. It is clear that whoever designed the ebrary interface never actually sat down to read a book for it. If it is too difficult to fit the text to the screen then why can't we just scroll down through pages like one would while reading a pdf in Adobe on the computer? The button-click-to-turn a page interface seems like a needless encumbrance.

ebscohost ebook reader is even worse.
While reading _Suspensions of Perception : Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture_, I clicked to make the text bigger on a given page because the default text size is minuscule. But then, when I clicked the button to go to the next page, the text size was reset to the microscopic default size. That means I would have to click the text increase button _again_ to get the text back to a readable size. Additionally, once the text is at a reasonable size, the page is bigger than the reading window. This means that in order to read all the way to the end of a line of text you need to scroll over to the right, and then scroll back to the left in order to start reading the next line of text. Again, why can't an interface be designed where the text just fits to the screen? Just trying to read one text involves an endless number of clicks and scrolls, which is absurdly distracting when I'm trying to read a book and follow an argument. There is no reason why this can't be better, and Duke Libraries should insist that these ebook companies redesign their interfaces.