From Newsgroup: comp.lang.python

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> 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.
--- Synchronet 3.20c-Linux NewsLink 1.2