On 2/13/10 12:30 PM, Martin Aspeli wrote: > Carlos de la Guardia wrote: >> It depends on whether you plan to read the technical book front to >> cover in one go or use it as a reference. E-book readers are not very >> good for the latter, because it's painful to quickly "thumb through" >> the pages of the book to find something. There's no match for a paper >> book for that. > > Interesting. I've found the opposite with readers of my book: People > with the text version want a PDF copy too because it's easier to search, > but prefer to read it in hard copy.
This is where it gets confusing I think. People call both the PDF and epub/Kindle formats "E-books". It's hard to know what the term means used out of context. PDF is really great for using on your computer and for searching and reading stuff non-linearly. I don't know how effectively searchable epub/Kindle books are, but apparently they are meant to be read linearly rather than used as a reference. The tools to read these formats on a desktop are primitive. -- Chris McDonough Agendaless Consulting, Fredericksburg VA The repoze.bfg Web Application Framework Book: http://bfg.repoze.org/book _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
