Re: Low Quality People: The Proof

On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:24:07 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

 
Some types of books must be in hardcopy. Math books. Physics books.
Computer programming books. Grammar books. It has to do with what you do
with it.
 

Why?  What do you do with them?

Decent PDF, or other ebook, software should allow the addition
of notes, comments, attachments, and a lot of other stuff directly
into the e-file.  In fact, one could add huge amounts of commentary
to an e-book, commentary that would normally be hidden but could be
invoked via a popup window, and this is something that could never
be done with a paper book.

Some people will claim that a paper book is more comfortable to read
and this was my conclusion when I first began reading e-books.
But over time I have grown so accustomed to the e-book format that
I actually greatly prefer e-bboks over the paper kind. 

Also, building a library of paper books may be a satisfying accomplishment
but then try relocating to a different home or apartment.  One will
need to hire 100-ton cranes and 18-wheel flatbed trucks to move the
load.

>
I do a lot with a hardcopy book that enriches it and turns it into an
extremely useful and fast reference. The electronic forms lack that
feature.
>

See above.

With experience, one can learn to do the same sorts of enrichment to
e-books that would even be more useful and faster.

Paper books, like photographic film and vinyl music recordings, are
dead.  Currently they may be a "walking dead" but it is only a
matter of time before they collapse completely.

This is the new world, the new age, and the new way.  One must learn
to do everything digitally.





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