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Not tech books, they usually weigh a tonne.

• oblio 9y ago
  True, because most of them either add a million diagrams or a million copy-pasted source code snippets. And this happens because people "respect" a thick book when they are looking for a technical book. It's quite silly, actually :)
  • mcny 9y ago
    Somewhat tangentially related, I would like to know how the parent poster or for that matter printed the document. somewhat unrelated, I don't use emacs but is there a way to break lines such as #+caption: [[https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/kernel/module.c?id%3Dc8d2bc9bc39ebea8437fd974fdbc21847bb897a3#n931][~kernel/module.c:931@c8d2bc~] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....] in the org mode source? https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.org https://blog.lizzie.io/linux-containers-in-500-loc.org
    • kurlberg 9y ago
      You can export from org to pdf (type C-c C-e l p in emacs). For some fine tuning you can export to tex and then use pdflatex.
  • pjmlp 9y ago
    Because many of us needed to thrust our work to thick books on the days before ubiquitous Internet. :)
  • vidarh 9y ago
    It's kind of strange, considering that most of the non-fiction books I remember most fondly, are fairly thin. The big tomes tend to largely be forgettable (there are of course exceptions) - I guess often because they go into too much detail that date rather than concisely describing concepts.