Re: Physical books versus PDF, was Re: Programming the 65816

[Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, D Finnigan wrote:

> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> > Now I have a "portable" copy when the hard copy is at home.  ;-)
>
> It's a matter of preference, but I wonder how many people like to have a
> physical book, such that it could be carried about the house, rather than a
> PDF?
>
> What I think is a winner: books with spiral binding! Like all of the good
> Apple manuals. That way, you don't have to break a book's spine to read and
> type in the source code listings.
It depends.  Smaller size books, of the Apple II manual size, yes, they
won't stay flat without breaking the spine or loading the pages down
with weights.

But larger size books, like the reprints of Dr. Dobbs that I typed in
the disassembler from Apple from, the larger size meant the book did stay
open without any weights or broken spine.

I'd much rather have the real books, but I've been known to download books
in electronic form that I already have, "just in case".

   Michael