How do you read your PDFs?

[dren]

I think I printed half of a malhavoc adventure ONCE out of the 30+ pdfs I've bought over the years...it's a whole lot easier to put it on a memory stick, and take it between my home, office and laptop. I try to keep my carry along as light as possible, and printing it out doesn't help.

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

How much are tablets these days?

 

[Kahuna Burger]

I have to say I'm suprized at the results thus far. Conventional wisdom has always told me that "everyone prints the PDFs" and my screen reading was unusual enough that I couldn't expect anyone to cater to it. Anyone here in publishing know if there is market research that contridicts this (admitedly unscientific) sample?

 

[diaglo]

i don't do pdfs if at all possible.

 

[Ceresco]

I read all PDFs on my laptop and only rarely print specific pages that I might need. Almost every Pdf that has a hard copy is paired with that hard cover. I need to own the books. I'm sure many of you understand exactly what I mean.

THe electronic only products only occasionally get used. The most I've ever printed was from Fiery Dragon's character counters for a battle interactive at Origins this summer. I needed lots of dwarves, fighters and trolls. They worked great by the way. I highly reccomend this product.

Respectfully,

Edward Kopp
UKon Games Coordinator
UKon 2007 Feb 9th & 10th
Lexington, KY

 

[sjmiller]

For me at least, reading is something that has to be done away from the computer. I work in front of a computer for eight hours a day (it's where I am now). When I get home, the last thing I want to do is sit in front of a computer to read gaming books. I don't own a laptop, so that option is out. And besides, laptops don't work too well when taking a bath, or when I want to read in bed. I like books. I like the feel of paper. I really dislike computers at the gaming table. The people I play with have a short enough attention span, they don't need a computer distracting them.

 

[ghost-angel]

I don't even own a printer. All PDFs are read on screen.

The most you'll get me to do is borrow the office printer to print a character sheet in a F2F game.

 

[Voadam]

Mostly onscreen, I used to print out a bunch and read them that way (particularly ones I was reviewing) but now I rarely print out any (select pages for immediate planned use at a table top game, a module I want to go over in depth while away from my computer, etc.).

 

[Wombat]

Often the pdfs just stay on screen, either because it is too long to practically print out or because I only want a very small section of the pdf. In general I buy pdfs as research material, rather than as something to use directly in my game (though there are some major exceptions, some that only developed after I picked up the pdf!).

 

[brodo]

I have 15 gigs of pdfs. It would cost thousands to print them out.