Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Salvador Mirzo Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date (Posting On Python-List Prohibited) Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:08:50 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: <877c5ga8rh.fsf@example.com> References: <2A4ADE24-6376-45E2-9726-B1122F415163@mostrom.pp.se> <632949de-056c-40e7-9e22-e1d71b1dbdd6@bm-support.org> <87cyfcix5v.fsf@example.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:08:51 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="71a286a15ea9dc7106cb7efd84a9b78e"; logging-data="627725"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19LXhpIEWtJzfybDXCeEzS//m3t9iocn6s=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:jjyOZIsiylZ+Uv+dSD8fUVRmRK4= sha1:K3FsOa5TvFj9FemoUbfdgUiPQhE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:197279 rbowman writes: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:51:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote: >> >>> It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen. >> >> You can’t do searches, though. > > For non-fiction a decent index does wonders. A good layout and talble of > contents also helps. Decorators? Chapter 14, page 254, all you ever wanted > to know about them. Well said. But I still like the full-text search because very often I want to cite a book and I remember the wording more or less, so I'm looking for that exact point, which is easiest found by a full-text search. It's bloody useful to have an ebook form of the book. It's just not pleasant to read it. I like to sort of lay back to read a book and I can't quite do that on a desk. I don't use computers off of desks. I don't care for phones or tablets. Phones have a too small screen and tablets are too big, too warm, don't bend like paper and are just plain annoying, too. :) Paper is so much more concrete than a screen. No need to recharge them and so on. Omg, I didn't know there were so many reasons... Funny is that the only real reason I really have for no reading on-screen is that I just don't want to.