How do you read your PDFs?

How much pdf reading do you do of printed vs screen?

  • 10 : All PDFs get printed, no reading on the computer

    Votes: 11 3.7%
  • 9

    Votes: 11 3.7%
  • 8 : Most PDFs get printed, but some reading on the computer

    Votes: 42 14.2%
  • 7

    Votes: 5 1.7%
  • 6

    Votes: 4 1.4%
  • 5 : exactly equal amount of printed vs screen reading

    Votes: 15 5.1%
  • 4

    Votes: 11 3.7%
  • 3

    Votes: 19 6.4%
  • 2 : Some PDFs get printed but mostly read on the screen

    Votes: 104 35.1%
  • 1

    Votes: 34 11.5%
  • 0 : No printing, all PDFs are read on the computer.

    Votes: 40 13.5%

My general track is to look 'em over on the computer first. If the pdf is good, I print it, then store the pdf on a CD (in case I ever need to print it again), delete it from my hard drive, and have the printed material bound. If I don't like the pdf, I just get rid of it altogether.

By and large, I use print-only materials for gaming; and pdfs exist SOLELY for the purpose of providing me something to print out. <Here, it might help to imagine me rattling the rust on my fists as I shake them.> I don't believe in reading from a screen, and never NEVER NEVER use resources like name/NPC/monster generators that only exist online. Computers are not welcome at my game table; only character sheets, dice, and the PHB for players (and ya better not expect to refer to that PHB every five minutes, either), and a DM screen and DMG/MM/this week's adventure for me.

Print only, thank y'very much. :]

Regards,
Darrell
 

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I voted 1, since I have printed out the occasional PDF.

I find reading them on the screen much easier after Phil Reed mentioned that he has a flat screen which swivels so he can read them in "portrait" rather then "landscape".

Of course, my flat screen monitor doesn't swivel, so I have to balance it on its side instead. I'm sure its going to slip and break one day, at which point I'll be cursing Phil :)
 

I read all of mine on the computer, but I will print out relevent pages prior to PnP games...just so I don't have to cart around all my books, just the juicy bits.

I also got tired of Adobe taking forever to load up everytime I open a .pdf so I switched to foxit reader. It's more responsive and much less resource intensive.

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php
 

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