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Re: Low Quality People: The Proof

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On 1/11/25 5:08 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:24:07 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>> Some types of books must be in hardcopy. Math books. Physics books.
>> Computer programming books. Grammar books. It has to do with what you do
>> with it.
>>
> 
> Why?  What do you do with them?
> 
> Decent PDF, or other ebook, software should allow the addition
> of notes, comments, attachments, and a lot of other stuff directly
> into the e-file.  In fact, one could add huge amounts of commentary
> to an e-book, commentary that would normally be hidden but could be
> invoked via a popup window, and this is something that could never
> be done with a paper book.
> 
> Some people will claim that a paper book is more comfortable to read
> and this was my conclusion when I first began reading e-books.
> But over time I have grown so accustomed to the e-book format that
> I actually greatly prefer e-bboks over the paper kind.
> 
> Also, building a library of paper books may be a satisfying accomplishment
> but then try relocating to a different home or apartment.  One will
> need to hire 100-ton cranes and 18-wheel flatbed trucks to move the
> load.
> 
> 
>>
>> I do a lot with a hardcopy book that enriches it and turns it into an
>> extremely useful and fast reference. The electronic forms lack that
>> feature.
>>
> 
> See above.
> 
> With experience, one can learn to do the same sorts of enrichment to
> e-books that would even be more useful and faster.
> 
> Paper books, like photographic film and vinyl music recordings, are
> dead.  Currently they may be a "walking dead" but it is only a
> matter of time before they collapse completely.
> 
> This is the new world, the new age, and the new way.  One must learn
> to do everything digitally.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


For one, electronic books chain you to a desktop and from there to your 
electric receptacles on the wall, your house, the electric company, and 
whether you have paid your electric bill or not.

Or in case of a laptop, you're chained to its ability to get charged, 
therefore to those funky power receptacles on them which soon go bad and 
get flaky and useless. I have THREE laptops sitting somewhere, useless, 
that those receptacles went bad on them and after ordering them a few 
times and installing new ones in place the boards themselves began to 
get flaky where those tiny power connection sockets are soldered to it.

Or in case of a smartphone, you're chained to the craziest tiny screen 
designed for teenagers, and gay men to shove them up their asses when 
they get the urge.

The only electronic choice you have is really with the desktop, and it 
may not look like it but it is as big as the whole power grid in your 
region.

Is that clumsier to use, or using a book the size of a book?

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Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2025-01-09 12:57 +0000
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 08:16 -0500
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2025-01-09 08:45 -0500
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-09 13:52 +0000
    Re: Low Quality People: The Proof -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-09 09:53 -0500
    Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-09 21:09 +0000
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 11:50 +0000
        Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 12:01 +0000
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 07:09 -0500
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 13:44 -0600
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 20:30 +0000
              Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 16:01 -0600
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 22:23 +0000
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-01-12 14:40 +0000
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-09 11:05 -0500
    Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-09 20:59 +0000
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-10 00:09 +0000
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 18:58 -0600
      Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-10 07:01 -0500
        Re: Low Quality People: The Proof rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-10 20:26 +0000
          Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-10 20:39 +0000
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2025-01-10 16:31 -0500
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-10 19:24 -0600
              Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 11:08 +0000
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 13:31 -0600
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 20:13 +0000
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-11 15:14 -0600
                Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-01-11 22:07 +0000
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-11 02:51 +0000
              Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 12:03 +0000
            Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 11:54 +0000
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2025-01-09 18:44 -0600
  Re: Low Quality People: The Proof Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-01-11 11:43 +0000

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