Printed Books Vs E-Books
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Personally I like printed books the most. Nothing beats the actual touch and feel of an actual book. (and you can kill flies with it!)
It's also easier on the eyes and it doesn't consume batteries. However, printed books are usually not in color.
Since I don't have the physical space to store every book I want to read, pdf on a laptop comes as a close second.
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Koen Verbeeck (9/18/2013)
Personally I like printed books the most. Nothing beats the actual touch and feel of an actual book. (and you can kill flies with it!)Well, you CAN kill flies with various electronic book reading devices...
...but I don't think the warranty will cover it.
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Those are some severely limited choices. I use the first two plus multiple other formats and not limited to just laptops. I maintain ebooks on my desktop box and on thumb-drives as well. Generally, I try to convert PDF's to WORD so that I can add my personal notes to the eBook.
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Sean Pearce (9/18/2013)
I am not voting because I use all three options.I use all three options, plus others, but I'm voting for tablet because I've run out of shelf space and my Kindle is a lot more convenient than my laptop (it will fit into my pocket, for example). Also, I'm using DVDs to store mob or other readable format files - that consumes much less space than paper. Of course the kindle and the laptop can both display pdf as well as mob format, and conversion from other formats to one of those is usually extremely easy. I've found that sometimes the laptop is useful for ebooks with diagrams in them - diagrams are sometimes badly handled on the Kindle.
The scarcity of shelf space means that I'm now buying a lot more ebooks than paper ones. But it will be a verylong time before my ebook collection has as many books as my paper collection - the paper collection had a very long head start.
Tom
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Print & PDF. While I read a lot of books on my iPad I have yet to read a technical computer book on the iPad... usually because they are too big and I prefer to read smaller books on a tablet. So I guess my real answer is it depends on how many pages in the book. If it's over a certain page number I'll be reading the print version.
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Jeff Atherton (9/19/2013)
Print & PDF. While I read a lot of books on my iPad I have yet to read a technical computer book on the iPad... usually because they are too big and I prefer to read smaller books on a tablet. So I guess my real answer is it depends on how many pages in the book. If it's over a certain page number I'll be reading the print version.It surprises me that number of pages is an issue. Now page size as an issue I can understand - if there are full page diagrams, or even worse diagrams that spread over two pages, and the original page size was A4 or American Letter or Foolscap, that won't be viable on a small screen device.
Tom
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For me, it really depends on the purpose of the book. For "reading" books, I'm fine with eBooks on the laptop or the tablet. For "studying" material, it's still hard to beat a printed book that you can mark up, highlight, make notes in and reference.
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George M Parker (9/19/2013)
For me, it really depends on the purpose of the book. For "reading" books, I'm fine with eBooks on the laptop or the tablet. For "studying" material, it's still hard to beat a printed book that you can mark up, highlight, make notes in and reference.But I can highlight and make notes in books on my Kindle and in the Kindle app on my laptop; and I don't see how an ebook is in any way different from a paper book with respect to referencing (of course when I see a web reference in an ebook I can click on it and go there, which is kind of hard with a paper book, so I can see that difference, but I think you meant something quite different from that - don't know what, though).
Tom
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For exended reading, I still like hardcopy books. For reference, you can't beat the searchability of PDF files. PDFs are good on laptops and larger screen devices but frustrating on Kindle Fire or small screens, where Kindle-format ebooks are much more usable.
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you can vote for the most favorites one for you for example if you have a 3 copy for same book one of them printed book , the second copy on the tablet (E-BOOK) and the last copy on your laptop (PDF file) which one you prefer to use and more comfortable to you than the others to read this book
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Generally i read article or Ebooks but ther is one book whic make me desparate to purchase it "Sql server 2008 internals" by kalen daleney. i have tried many book online store to purchase LPE edition but every where it was with "sold out" tag. then finaly i went to a market (books hub) from where i bought it . i always carry it while travel to office and spend some time on it.i also have ebook in my smart phone but ..i prefer my hand book
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I prefer actual books because you can flip back and forth more easily than in electronic media. There's also something nice about unplugging and just getting into it. I don't use electronic readers at all for multiple reasons but do read on a computer, but that invites distractions and you're no longer into what you're reading.
An added bonus with a physical book is that you know it's going to be on your shelf when you need it and it won't suddenly become unavailable because your permissions were lost, the electronic device died, it became unpublished or a license check failed because a server died or was hacked somewhere. When I buy a book, I bought a book - I didn't rent it. I don't want to be subject to a corporate whim where I suddenly lose it.
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I'm thinking about getting a Kindle. Anyone experience with it?
I have some PDFs lying around, can it display those as well?
Is it good for reading technical books (screenshots, tables, code samples, ...)?
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