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In article <mshs61$1ll$1@news.albasani.net>, Ken Springer
<wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:

> >>>>>> At least with a book, you can thumb through the pages and maybe see an
> >>>>>> image, or catch a snippet of text, that may stop you and you may have
> >>>>>> found your answer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In these days of constant updating, printed books quickly become out of
> >>>>> date.
> >>>>
> >>>> That they do.  On the plus side, you can write your own customized notes
> >>>> in the margins.
> >>>
> >>> you can do that with an ebook.
> >>>
> >>> ebooks also weigh nothing and take up no physical space, which means
> >>> that you can put hundreds of them on an ipad or smartphone so you have
> >>> the manual with you at all times.
> >>
> >> But, in the case of "beginners", it means you also need to have the
> >> ereader and know how to use it.  <G>
> >
> > how hard is it to click a readme file?
> 
> Damned hard if you don't know what it is, or how to open it.

how many people don't know how to click on a file?

> In general, you're already talking about users that are more 
> knowledgeable than I am.

you don't know how to click a file?

> > the point is that ebooks are much better than paper books because you
> > can have hundreds of them in a small e-reader and be able to search on
> > any phrase and much more.
> >
> >> Oddly enough, I've yet to read an "ebook".  All PDF files to this point.
> >
> > ebooks can be pdf. many of them are.
> 
> Mentally, and yes that's a problem (LOL),

it's not a problem at all.

> I equate ebooks as a file 
> format for Kindle, Nook, etc. as opposed to PDF files which can be read 
> on any computer or device with a PDF reader installed.

ebooks can also be read on a computer. 

apple now even provides an app to do exactly that but that's not the
only app that can read them.

> >>    That's due to the fact that ebook versions of the books I'm reading
> >> are not common.  And where I've looked a couple of the ebook versions,
> >> the pictures are missing, and no one has proof read the book for
> >> scanning/OCR errors.  Which I understand, as many of the books approach
> >> 500 pages or more.
> >
> > then the ebooks you're reading are poorly produced.
> 
> Maybe not.  None of the PDF files started as any type of text file.  All 
> started life as digital images, scans of books.  And there's zero profit 
> incentive for producing them, AFAIK.  Publish dates are usually in the 
> timeframe of 1880-1920.

like i said, poorly produced. a scan of a book is about the worst
possible way to make an ebook.

whether it's worthwhile to expend the resources to do it properly is a
separate issue. it might not be, but that doesn't make a scan magically
good. it's still crap.

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