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I'm very pro-paper. Flipping back and forth in a book (is there any other way to read a textbook?) is just a much better experience than swiping madly or spammi
by arh68 13y ago
I'm very pro-paper. Flipping back and forth in a book (is there any other way to read a textbook?) is just a much better experience than swiping madly or spamming PgDwn. I feel trapped inside that little rectangle of a viewport, waiting for pixels to change.
>computers don't take advantage of our spatial memory. I can go back and visualize
I still remember the page of my linear algebra textbook that related rowspace, nullspace, transpose. It seemed terribly confusing at the time so I was staring more than reading. I remember the layout on the page, the red lines. I don't recall the exact formula, so it's not magic, but the memory is so unusually sticky I can't help but agree.
>It's a shame that so few companies are exploring the synergies of paper and digital.
If there's a (cheap) way to use a whiteboard and not resort to A) writing down the novel bits, B) taking a picture, I am all ears. Putting the tech in the board is probably too expensive.. perhaps a marker attachment would be more realistic. Once it's digitized, OCR / vector drawings can be tried & improved. I like the idea of the Evernote/Moleskine duo, but I just don't use moleskines like that.
Random tidbit: in the Mad Men-styled issue of TIME (2012?), there was a very good full-page ad on the real benefits of reading/using paper. Might have it somewhere.
- alnis 13y agohttp://www.colourtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Domtar-Newsweek-Ad.jpg http://www.colourtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Domtar-... This one?
- arh68 13y agoYeah, that's the one. It was an interesting issue.
- superuser2 13y agoIs the SMART board what you are looking for? Installed SMART boards are rapidly becoming standard hardware in K12 classrooms.
- arh68 13y agoI don't know how schools afford them, they're pretty expensive. $50 is about my limit for whiteboards.