Downloadable Rule Books

[Welverin]

unless you have a printer that can do back to back printing (fortunately I do) you're wasting a lot of paper--which can get expensive!

It's not as easy but you can do it yourself if you just print out the odd pages, stick them back in the printer and print the even ones. You'd have to be careful and it's more of a pain but can be done.

 

[Sulimo]

Yep. I've no problem with staring at a screen, but for reading anything more than a (very) few pages long, I need paper and preferably a couch or bed to lie on. So until some book-sized hand helds start becoming a reality, I won't be reading a lot of pdfs (DL $ + Ink + Paper + Time to Print & Put together + Inconvenience of putting it together = at least as much value as just buying the book at the store)

I would agree for the most part, but I would also add that I like the smell and feel of these old paperly things.

 

[Horacio]

Look this from another angle:

Those small companies haven't enough money to print a real book, so if they don't put it in pfd they don't release it.

IMHO, for that kind of products it's pdf or nothing, so I choose pdf...

YMMV, of course

 

[EverSoar]

I Recently got on the band wagon and downloaded all the available stuff from Malhavoc press. I think Mr. Cook's got a great thing going with the downloads and hopefully more companies will catch on and do the same thing.

So the question is, how do all of you feel about the subject?

Where Would be the address for such places?

 

[Tsyr]

Re: A bit unsafe...

A bit paranoid. Downloadable stuff is all well and good, but your average computer winds up breaking all to peices after about two years...and then, no more rulebook. The advantage is that they're cheap, but they lack the portabilty and style of a printed rulebook. I'd rather have a print version, but if people like the downloads, more power to 'em. I'm just afraid that I suddenly won't have the when my computer breaks down (again).

And from on high the great lord of the geeks decended, bearing in his hands the answer to all problems. And he held it before him, and surey he spake:

Geteth ye to a store and persue the purchase of a CD-Burner. For less than a hundred dollars you can have one for thy very own, and ye shalt have storage everlasting.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

I really like pdf stuff. I lose actual books all the time. If I lose a pdf, I'll just print it out again. Like someone said, your hard drive occassionally gets fried, but I lose hard copies a lot more often than I do stuff on my hard drive.