Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Favorite Font Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:48:28 +0200 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <1835a5c81ceedfd3$44418$19313$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <20250414092849.00004cdd@gmail.com> <87wmbcguz9.fsf@somewhere.edu> <68096d1a@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3ThycUMfTvu9VC/fso3naAkJMVBJpYzOyzb+XscQQVr5RXmlrj X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:N8kD4purU8YrnJCz7Vx3JIlbYhk= sha256:TAubKXowpxO+gQ+vt11EvPmVuu1GINoUJ3bFK3K0dqw= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <68096d1a@news.ausics.net> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:697371 comp.os.linux.misc:74658 On 2025-04-24 00:43, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > In comp.os.linux.misc Farley Flud wrote: >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:56:58 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote: >>>> >>>> Print? Does anyone still print? ... >>> And books, of course: I print out a chapter to see if I want to >>> continue the reading and it's much lighter to carry a chapter than the >>> entire physical book. Electronic devices are not flexible like paper >>> and they reflect light in a different way and you can't write on their >>> margins using a device that lets you feel the friction of pencil on >>> paper or pen on paper. Some pens are such beautiful devices. >>> >>> Anything interesting I find on the web I print for later reading. >> >> Whew! You must spend a fortune on ink or toner. >> >> Saving web pages as described above, or printing to PDF, is the >> much cheaper, and in the long term more desirable, option. The same >> applies to books. > > Nah, I prefer long content printed out too. I mainly use waste > paper that's printed on one side, and old toner carts that are > too faint for important use, but still readable for text. The one > problem is that, even when I take the time to check before > printing, I still miss scrap pages that are the wrong way round > and get things printed over the top of the old text. That's damn > frustrating. I don't have space for storing a single book more, so I buy ebooks and read them in a Kobo Libra device. It is similar to paper, I can read it just fine out in the sun. The current model has a bit of shine, the older model didn't. And it has an electronic pencil to write notes or drawings. I liked paper more, but on these things I can choose font, size, line spacing, etc. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;