rbowman <bow...@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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
