Mate Nagy dixit (2009-09-05, 12:17): > > High quality fonts, ligatures, proper hyphenation and other subtle > > typographic elements (yes, with lots of added complexity, thank you very > > much) are a *big* gain and make perfect sense when typeset at 2450 dpi; > > pretending that text set on a 90 dpi PDA display by some quicky crap > > pseudo-typesetting engine is equivalent in quality is preposterous.
> Books on paper are great, although the interface is a bit dated; I'd > much rather have the 90dpi PDA screen that remembers my position in > multiple books, and sometimes I can even search for stuff. Position in books I read is remembered by a simple device called a bookmark. No need for advanced tech on silicon+software on that. :) > I can imagine a few uses where wasting trees and technology on 2450 dpi > technology makes sense (literature), but for the majority of stuff > (manuals, documentation, tutorials, journals, mail) this is completely > ridiculous. There are quite a few users in the world. I read books, I very much enjoy this medium. Those who don't should not judge the world (claiming print is obsolete) from their limited point of view. > This is the same as why you don't see those beautiful, hand-made > ironworks on buildings, bridges, etc. any more. They're all great > craftmanship, but completely uneconomical in this age. So sorry it > hurts ya. I see them. I enjoy them. It makes my life in a mostly-modernist pre-war suburb of Warsaw so much more enjoyable than if I had to live in those boring run-of-the-mill post-Le-Corbusier apartment blocks (may they be demolished ASAP). Economy is not everything. It doesn't hurt me – contrary. I very much enjoy the pleasures of great typography, good metalwork and slow food. I do, too, read a lot technical documentation and papers online, and for those things there are obviously other needs; still, they don't make paper obsolete (and probably will not, as long as there are people with enough hedonism to actually *enjoy* the items they interact with). Regards, -- [a]
