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Larry Bean Inner circle I'm digging enough holes for 2016 Posts |
I would be curious as well. Obviously PDFs have some advantages and paper books have some advantages. If the PDF book was fairly short in number of pages it could be printed from the pdf and bound so that you could have a hard copy as well - probably not as practical with several hundred pages even though you could choose to print only key pages.
I would highly recommend burning a backup copy of any downloaded PDFs to CDROM or DVDROM in case your hard drive crashes. An ounce of prevention.... |
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Mr. Ree Elite user Sedona AZ 414 Posts |
Sorry for the slow response. I have been working to get a new 20 minute
routine together for a Dec 6th show. Here are the results so far. To be fair I only have 8 PDF magic books so far. My library of “regular books is over 100. Pros to PDF I took a small lap top on a 4 day seminar. So the PDFs provided material that I could read in the evening on my laptop. It would have been much more inconvenient to carry around the 8 books I had loaded on the laptop. Seems to be quicker to print a few PDF pages for reference and for writing notes on. (I place them in a small folder). Depending on if the PDF is completely locked or not I can copy any part, picture or section of a PDF book. Then paste it into my own format in a word file and very quickly print a small custom set of reference pages just how I want them. Much faster to find some phrase in the PDF books. Not everything is indexed or as easy to locate in a regular book. Less convenient to handle/copy large regular books. Yes I can copy the pages out of the book but it’s not quite as easy as selecting pages on a screen and them printing them. . Also I don’t like bending the spine of some larger “collector” books to copy them. Buying and having large "regular" books shipped is getting quite costly. Also my stomach hurts when I received an expensive new book with bent corners or some other type of "shipping" damage. So far I haven't had any pages turn brown in my PDF books. Cons of PDF. I just have a “normal” laptop. I can’t read a PDF on the screen for as long as I can read a “regular” book. Something I can’t put into words too well but it seems more “relaxing” to turn pages and look at a regular book. At home I am more likely to go to a shelve and pick up a regular book before I think about booting up the laptop to read a PDF.
An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
---- William Bernbach (1911 - 1982) ---- (After 25 years of PCs, everything switched to Macs, June 2008) |
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Jay Austin Regular user 184 Posts |
The glare of the computer screen causes eyestrain moreso than books.
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