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> - As ridiculous as it may sound, I can visually "scan" a paper book faster than I can scan a file on the screen. This often is much more useful than search be
by xasos 12y ago
> - As ridiculous as it may sound, I can visually "scan" a paper book faster than I can scan a file on the screen. This often is much more useful than search because I rarely remember the exact wording of things I need to find.
This is the main reason I still use paper. While digital may be cheaper and more portable, print is so much easier in the eyes and I tend to read much faster than on a bright panel.
- omaranto 12y agoHave you tried an e-ink screen?
- xasos 12y agoI haven't, but would to give it a shot in the future. I feel like it would be a hassle to convert books that aren't already ePub/(insert DRM format here) though. Do you find this to be a problem?
- widowlark 12y agoCalibre ereader management is any easy piece of software that makes those conversions a lot faster
- omaranto 12y agoWell, I had an old Sony PR-505 eReader and while it could read PDF's it ccertainly wasn't ideally suited to it. I did usually preprocess them by at least cropping the margins as much as I could (a program called briss makes this easy). But I think modern eReaders are much better and might be able to zoom in on PDFs. Every other format I came across I converted to ePub using Calibre, which is fairly painless.