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Just bought it. I'm researching ways to teach computer science and this has come up in so many threads it's not even funny. :) (Despite it being a free ebook I
by jlees 16y ago
Just bought it. I'm researching ways to teach computer science and this has come up in so many threads it's not even funny. :)
(Despite it being a free ebook I vastly prefer print, another problem I'm trying to figure out and solve...)
- squidsoup 16y agoHave you tried reading technical books on a Kindle DX? It's quite a nice experience.
- larsberg 16y agoThe slow pages turns are a killer. Especially with PDFs. "As shown in Figure N" for any value of N not on the current page was what basically killed the usefulness of the device for me.
- jlees 16y agoI don't have a DX, just an iPad, Xoom and 1st gen Kindle. But from those experiences, it's not the form factor that bothers me - it's the natural continuous access of the ebook format. I can't read PDFs onscreen for much the same reasons. When I read technical books, I scribble; I dog-ear; I add in postits everywhere; on textbooks, I even highlight and deface quite happily. And this helps me fix in my mind where reference information is: it's the green post-it in the corner. It's the page with the drawing of a dog in the top left. (I seem to have a very visual memory for recall.) I just cannot, no matter how hard I try, reproduce that experience on an e-reader. Yes, the features are mostly there, and search is a very nice bonus - it also works quite nicely for continuous following of tutorials - but the general way I consume these books just doesn't translate.