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> Paper books are also just orders of magnitude easier to flip through and re-read specific chapters, paragraphs or sections. Whatever works for you, of course
by wolverine876 2y ago
> Paper books are also just orders of magnitude easier to flip through and re-read specific chapters, paragraphs or sections.
Whatever works for you, of course. PDFs have bookmarks, which instantly take me to a specific spot on a specific page. Also, I can open multiple instances of the PDF, viewing multiple pages of the same book (or some PDF readers allow split screens to do the same thing). Edit: And if I don't recall where something is, I can search for it.
- Tor3 2y agoI prefer PDFs for informative material (various documentation), though they're less useful if it's just a photocopied old manual (no OCR). It's when reading books (literature, not documentation) that the e-readers have something going for them. I read nearly all my books on the Kindle, but I never use it for documentation - I've tried, that's just cumbersome. PDFs on a PC are fine.