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Re: Linux will truly have arrived when...

Kier wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:58:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> __/ [ Kier ] on Thursday 08 June 2006 09:43 \__
>> 
>>> On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 06:51:13 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> 
>>>> __/ [ Stephen Fairchild ] on Wednesday 07 June 2006 20:03 \__
>>>> 
>>>>> I live in hope of spotting a copy of Linux Format alongside Windows XP
>>>>> magazine on the shelves at my local supermarket.
>>>> 
>>>> You can download Linux magazines as PDF's nowadays. Why stick to paper
>>>> form?
>>> 
>>> Easy. I can take a magazine to work to read in break-times.
>> 
>> True. Been mentioned before *smile*. It's very dependent upon the person
>> though. I suppose that with the money saved on magazines over the years,
>> a PDA could be bought which displays PDF (starts at about GBP 100).
> 
> No doubt, but I wouldn't take anything that valuable to work with me, and
> reading a small screen is far less comfortable than spreading a magazine
> out on a table.
> 

I have to agree there, the pda idea seemd like a good one, I started by
downloading books. I never found a way to save which page you are on, so
each session had to start with a nip into the pda notes so I could find my
page. 

But I found I just couldn't read in automatic mode in the same way I can
with a paper book. You know how it is, we don't really read, we scan. The
subconcious does the work so that we can enjoy the story. Well try as I
might I just couldn't get that from reading the PDA screen.

So I'm afraid I've gone back to wasteing trees.


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