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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sjmiller" data-source="post: 4370403" data-attributes="member: 17262">Well, let me start with portability.  I run all of my games from my home, so portability means bringing things from downstairs to upstairs.  Plus, a book is more portable when I want to read it in bed, or on the john, or anywhere that is not right in front of my desktop.  I can only read a pdf sitting in front of my computer, which is not all that comfortable for a multi-hour reading.I also prefer to write adventures (and new game books for that matter) while sitting on my couch.  Without a laptop, a pdf is pretty worthless in this sort of project.  This is entirely personal, of course, but it is how I work.I find that copying notes for creatures into my handwritten game notes gives me a better knowledge of the creature.  Sometimes I hardly need to check the notes during game play, as I tend to memorize things as I write them.  This makes for a quick flowing game, which is always a good thing.For me, a pdf is good for printing a couple of pages for a player to use, or maybe print a few pages to read when I do not want to take the whole book with me.  If I have a pdf of a book I own, then I sometimes use the pdf to search for things when the books index is not enough (or is nonexistant).Oh, and finally, because I do not have Acrobat Professional, I cannot make notes or comments or highlights in a pdf like I can in my physical book.  Notes, tabs, and highlights make a book more useful to me, so not being able to do that to a pdf makes it much less useful.So, there you have it.  Long winded, but that is why a pdf is not worth as much to me as a physical book.</blockquote>

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