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When you are first learning a subject it's really helpful to have it printed out on paper. As you chew through it, you can leave all kinds of personal markings
by christofd 17y ago
When you are first learning a subject it's really helpful to have it printed out on paper. As you chew through it, you can leave all kinds of personal markings, underlinings etc. And you are not distracted by a million other things - a book serves only one purpose.
Later on, after already being familiar with a subject, a digital version is o.k. as well.
Summary -> school children need printed textbooks, pen and paper, homework done on paper (hand writing skills)
- christofd 17y agoAlthough, certain online learning resources inspire confidence -> e.g. Django book, Thinking in Java, O'Reilly Safari etc. The nice thing with an online version is that you can e.g. scale up the text size to an ultra-readable format, jump quicker between footnotes/ citations, retrieve the TOC, look up words in the index quicker, leave feedback (Django Book) on each paragraph. It really depends on the design quality of the online resource... hypertext craftsmanship. And look at all the info mangling possibilities in Freebase/ Freebase Parallax (navigating between related sets of information) -> http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ http://mqlx.com/~david/parallax/ or even Wolfram Alpha. Books can't do this. They are linear.
- klipt 17y agoIf you have a tablet PC (or a tablet) you can annotate pdfs using software like Jarnal.