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So, I hate pdfs. Any advice on hating them less?
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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7819066" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>Sort of. It is, at least in part, a mental map thing.</p><p></p><p>Consider, for a moment, how you use a D&D paper rulebook. You want to find something in it, and start flipping pages. You probably flip past a couple of pages, and they look right, and stop, and there you are. This is using a mental map of the book - different pieces of art and layout, where the headings on pages are, and such, become landmarks for where you are in the text. You can find what you need based on the "landscape" of pages.</p><p></p><p>Your memory often references information the same way - you remember it was in a book, you think of where, and then think of the information on the page. You run through the mental map in your head.</p><p></p><p>This falls apart when you don't have a mental map. And, we don't usually successfully make such maps about electronic products - we don't typically flip through them, we use search functions, and so never generate the map via repeated viewings of the pages in sequence. And that imparis the map-reference version of your memory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7819066, member: 177"] Sort of. It is, at least in part, a mental map thing. Consider, for a moment, how you use a D&D paper rulebook. You want to find something in it, and start flipping pages. You probably flip past a couple of pages, and they look right, and stop, and there you are. This is using a mental map of the book - different pieces of art and layout, where the headings on pages are, and such, become landmarks for where you are in the text. You can find what you need based on the "landscape" of pages. Your memory often references information the same way - you remember it was in a book, you think of where, and then think of the information on the page. You run through the mental map in your head. This falls apart when you don't have a mental map. And, we don't usually successfully make such maps about electronic products - we don't typically flip through them, we use search functions, and so never generate the map via repeated viewings of the pages in sequence. And that imparis the map-reference version of your memory. [/QUOTE]
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