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

["winston19842005@yahoo.com" <winston19842005@yahoo.com>]

On Nov 28, 8:22 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 5:40 am, dog_...@macgui.com (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?
>
> Well, as they say, "You can't grep dead trees" so if utility is the
> only measure the e-book wins hands down.
>
> That said, I *like* looking things up in the old Apple manuals and
> have been known to while away an evening just (re)reading a manual and
> picking up something I hadn't previously noticed.
>
> So I'd say that the small space occupied by e-books means I don't have
> to choose, and can have my cake and eat it too.
>

I dunno. When I grep a pdf, I get way too many hits. But on most
decent books, there is both a "Table of Contents" and an "Index", that
does a much better job of "grepping".

Besides, I did not buy a reader, but did buy a netbook last year, and
I can report to you that in my favorite reading position it has a
tendency to slip between my legs...