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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiefling" data-source="post: 1063476" data-attributes="member: 251">I have to echo Mistwell here. I'm fifteen years old, I program as a hobby, and I plan to program for a living. If there is anyone on this board who grew up with computers and is comfortable with them, it's me. But I've never felt entirely comfortable with reading a PDF book from cover to cover. There's something tangibly different between the two media, although I have difficulty pinpointing it. Ideally the two could coexist, perhaps with books packaged with CDs that would contain the PDF form of the text. There are some obvious advantages to PDFs that have been described above: they are better for searching an entire library for a spell or monster or obscure rule, or for printing out a few sections and not bothering with the rest, or sharing the text in an environment unsafe to books. If you take a few minutes to back them up you will have them for as long as you care to keep them. And, of course, they allow new publishers to enter the industry on little capital. I'm not vehemently against the idea of PDFs being the dominant medium, and I certainly don't think that it will cause serious harm to the industry (somehow every new and different thing in the industry will cause its doom, or such is the impression I get from this board). However, I hope that physical books will stick around.I'm thoroughly enamored with the ideas of a U.S. conversion to metrics and a paperless or nearly paperless office, though.</blockquote>

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