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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 748048" data-attributes="member: 1328">Feh. What I find annoying with programs like that, it's that they get the books loooonnnnnng before any of the LGS around... Here, WotC and SSS stuff may be taken from the stores about 2-3 months after every US gamer has already posted a review of it on the net; and other d20 publisher products may be obtained about 3-4 months after having ordered them.While making a research on "d20" on kazaa gives immediately an obscenely huge list of answer...However, frankly, even if I throwed my honesty through the window, I much prefer to own printed paper books. Among the reasons:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I hate the PDF format;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Real books are much more readable;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pirated books are scanned by a not-so-trained chimp, the pages are always bent in a way or another, frequently too dark, usually half the innermost column is mangled, and sometimes whole pages are missed;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Frequently whole chapters;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I hate the acrobat program, who take 99% of the CPU and 85% of memory even when reading a normal, text-based PDF;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Reading on a screen is really not handy;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Especially when the characters are all blurry because it has been scanned very badly;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I curse to the grey waste the adobe programmers who conceived such a clunky beast as acrobat, which is poorly named because it looks more like a drunken dwarf in heavy armor than like a nimble monk;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Turning a virtual page on a PDF makes the hard disk screech in horror as 75 megabytes are churned to and fro the swap;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Have I said that I hate PDFs, Acrobat, and Adobe ? If not, I'll say it now, what a horrid piece of software;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I can't read on my computer in my bed;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My eyes turn red and drown in tears when I try to read these somewhat-dark grey on somewhat-light grey blurry characters for too long;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">My nerves suffer an even worse fate when I wait 3m45 seconds before the blasted piece of sh<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" />tware agree to display back the top of the page so that I could proceed to read the second column; and twice as much time when I need to go on the following page;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's really not practical;</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I hate PDFs.</li> </ul>Edit: if the damn filter wants gremlins rather than angry swearwords, at least he could put angry gremlins !</blockquote>

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