10 Dec
2008
10 Dec
'08
7:31 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Yes, me too. I like being able to scribble notes and diagrams in the margins
of reference books.
I've
weaned myself from paper in this area. While I agree paper is
nice, I find the PDF easier to navigate when I am writing code or laying
out parts in EAGLE. I do tend to print out a page or two from the PDF
at times (pinouts and such) for brainstorming and such.
Someday, I might be able to be that facile with my reading material.
But I prefer to look down when I'm working on something in front of
me, not up at a screen and grab my pencil and check things off or
annotate them. You know, they call it a "desktop", but have
you ever tried to put
your lunch on the Windows variety,
We hid someone's lunch inside their PC once. They weren't best pleased,
although the smell of warm sandwiches which gradually filled the office was
quite inviting.
or use it as a support for a
stapler? Damned things keep sliding off...
Heh, that's actually one of the reasons* I don't like LCD panels - in the past
I've always had quite large CRT monitors, and the space above the face of the
tube is quite good for balancing stacks of papers and other important things.
* The main one is that they give me a headache after a while, where a
well-adjusted CRT never has.
Does anyone here stick their PDFs on an ebook reader
to keep them
handy?
I've never tried one. For me it's really emissive display technology which
affects the readability of a document, even more so than its packaging.