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Poll: EBooks or Paper books for tech reading?
2 points by Tempest1981 on Sept 18, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
See additional discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32888730
Paper books
8 points
eBooks/PDFs
5 points



Paper books are easier to flick backwards and forwards in. Also some PDF images/diagrams end up being too small and/or indistinct on the e-reader page without mucking about.

Paper books are also easier to rotate so that landscape and portrait style diagrams are easier to manipulate.

Having said all that, I like both formats for their advantages, and hate both formats for their disadvantages. So I sometimes have both formats available simultaneously, and use the most useful one for me at that particular time.





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