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<blockquote data-quote="PowerWordDumb" data-source="post: 1054027" data-attributes="member: 8614">In my experience there are two phases to using a new RPG book.&nbsp; The first is carrying it around for a few weeks reading it at lunch, on the bus, at your boring mother-in-law's boring dinner party, etc - sucking it all in, understanding the systems and inspiration therein, and just basically grokking it all.&nbsp; The second is actually *using* the book as reference in a game.For the first phase, I cannot do that with an electronic version.&nbsp; Just doesn't work for me.&nbsp; It doesn't matter whether it's an RPG book or an IBM technical redbook - big documents get printed out so they can be read.&nbsp; No matter how they keep improving the Acrobat reader, it's just not a comfortable way to consume a document.&nbsp; Your mileage may vary, but for me it's definite second-class citizen status compared to a good hardcopy.&nbsp; I can't be alone in this sentiment, as electronic books aren't the tiniest percentage of paper book sales for anything beyond technical reference manuals.&nbsp; I hear they're doing wonderful things with reading enhancement technology on TabletPCs in this area, but I'm not blessed with one, and a laptop is a pale imitation, so I'm out of luck.The second phase is perfectly suited to an electronic format, since you're not &quot;reading and flipping&quot; through hundreds of electronic pages to find what you want, and you have search capability to get you where you need to be quickly.So, for me at least, that's why I print my PDFs.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PowerWordDumb, post: 1054027, member: 8614"] In my experience there are two phases to using a new RPG book. The first is carrying it around for a few weeks reading it at lunch, on the bus, at your boring mother-in-law's boring dinner party, etc - sucking it all in, understanding the systems and inspiration therein, and just basically grokking it all. The second is actually *using* the book as reference in a game. For the first phase, I cannot do that with an electronic version. Just doesn't work for me. It doesn't matter whether it's an RPG book or an IBM technical redbook - big documents get printed out so they can be read. No matter how they keep improving the Acrobat reader, it's just not a comfortable way to consume a document. Your mileage may vary, but for me it's definite second-class citizen status compared to a good hardcopy. I can't be alone in this sentiment, as electronic books aren't the tiniest percentage of paper book sales for anything beyond technical reference manuals. I hear they're doing wonderful things with reading enhancement technology on TabletPCs in this area, but I'm not blessed with one, and a laptop is a pale imitation, so I'm out of luck. The second phase is perfectly suited to an electronic format, since you're not "reading and flipping" through hundreds of electronic pages to find what you want, and you have search capability to get you where you need to be quickly. So, for me at least, that's why I print my PDFs. [/QUOTE]

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