Anyone not like PDFs?

[Hjorimir]

I don't have a problem with PDFs really, but I never really buy them either. For some reason I love hardbacks; I even shy away from some books because they are not hardbound.

 

[amethal]

And this is why I love my primary monitor. It's on a pivot so I can rotate it from landscape to portrait. Now if my secondary only had the same feature . . .

I spent 5 minutes envying you, and wondering where I could buy a monitor with that useful feature.

Then I turned my (flat) screen through 90 degrees and propped it up against a convenient wall.

I can't believe how much easier it is to read PDFs this way. Why didn't I think of it sooner!?!

 

[Alzrius]

Anyone who doesn't love PDFs is a commie.

 

[IronWolf]

I spent 5 minutes envying you, and wondering where I could buy a monitor with that useful feature.

Then I turned my (flat) screen through 90 degrees and propped it up against a convenient wall.

I can't believe how much easier it is to read PDFs this way. Why didn't I think of it sooner!?!

I just had a why didn't I think of it sooner moment too.... I rotated the PDF in Adobe and then just turned my laptop to the side..... Sort of like reading a heavy book, but much better than scrolling up and down. My PDFs may have just become more useful.... Sometimes the silly simply things I overlook!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

While I can respect the concept of carrying large numbers of PDFs on a Zip or flash drive, I must say I prefer books by many orders of magnitude- the only PDFs I own are research papers, law articles, and the like.

I can pass them around the table. I can use my books virtually anywhere, anytime- even when the power is out (VIVA CANDLES!). They are immune to viruses, power surges, and software obsolescence. In my experience, they also don't induce the same kind of eyestrain as reading from a monitor.

 

[Ranger REG]

The only PDFs I like are those that are free or I can pay with cash or money order.

Of course, those PDFs should have artworks that are not horribly pixelized. If you can't paste WYSIWYG quality artworks, don't put them in there! You're just wasting bytes!

 

[genshou]

I just had a why didn't I think of it sooner moment too.... I rotated the PDF in Adobe and then just turned my laptop to the side..... Sort of like reading a heavy book, but much better than scrolling up and down. My PDFs may have just become more useful.... Sometimes the silly simply things I overlook!

You mean you're supposed to turn it sideways when you do that?

Maybe it's just because I've grown up on computers, but I find my Powerbook's trackpad and those wonderful PG. UP and PG. DN keys can do such amazing things... and I've never had a hard time reading the monitors, either. Though it doesn't help me if I do it right before I sleep, like I am right now

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

My only problem with PDFs is you can't browse through them (for good reason), and the previews rarely tell me anything useful

 

[Tetsubo]

Anyone who doesn't love PDFs is a commie.

Then I'm a Dirty Commie.

I've never bought a PDF and I have no plans on ever buying any.

For me a gaming book is just that, a book. I want it in my hands and made of paper.

Having the SRD on-line is handy but reading texts on a monitor is annoying.

In an ideal world books would come with a digital version of themselves. That way everyone would be happy.

 

[IronWolf]

Maybe it's just because I've grown up on computers, but I find my Powerbook's trackpad and those wonderful PG. UP and PG. DN keys can do such amazing things... and I've never had a hard time reading the monitors, either. Though it doesn't help me if I do it right before I sleep, like I am right now

Yeah, but the page up page down from one column to the next can be quite annoying to me for any stretch of time. That's why turning the page and then the laptop sideways seems a whole lot nicer to me. Paging up and down for the short PDFs isn't too bad. For long ones it gets annoying.