Guenter Wildgruber <gwildgru...@ymail.com> wrote: > > Jed, how can an enlightened person like you are, engage in such -ahem- > silly distinctions/preferences? > just wondering. >
It is not silly. Eyestrain can give you headache. It is important to make documents easy to read. I have been reading a bunch of Edwardian British novels on iPad lately. And Tolstoy. It may be more readable than paper. Nice big print. Meanwhile, print-on-demand equipment is improving: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/with-this-machine-you-can-print-your-own-books-at-the-local-bookstore/254431/ Just about the time they perfect this, and begin lowering the cost, no one will want paper books anymore. Technology often blossoms and improves radically just before it vanishes. The last generation of sailing ships, mainly schooners, had steel masts and steel cables instead of ropes. The sails could be spread or furled from the deck, with cranks. The ship were much safer and took a much smaller crew than conventional sailing ships. Still, they could not compete with steamships. - Jed
