On 03/03/18 08:31 AM, Ken Heard via talk wrote:
On 2018-02-02 05:06, Russell via talk wrote:

Snip.


For my personal pleasure in reading tho, I prefer paper. For one it's easier on the eyes. 

Also I have several dog eared reference books I would never trade for their digital versions. The simple fact is, that while flipping pages searching for one thing, I learn many other things.

Accidental learning, this is something almost completely eliminated by key word searches of digital documents. 

I don't think so.  I find that when I look up something on for example
Wikipedia, I find myself following many of the links in its articles
which take me to all sorts of places unrelated to my original quest. In
fact I sometimes run the danger of forgetting what I was originally
looking for -- but on the other hand memory loss is attributable to age,
and I qualify for such loss on the ground of age.

Ken

I'm now using the chrome dotEPUB add-on to turn web pages into epubs to read on my kobo on the bus. This preserves the links and the searchability, but gives me an acceptable screen quality.  My typesetter friends excoriate even my best dot-matrix screens (;-))

      

      

      

      
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