Do you prefer paper or plastic... er, I mean paper or e-books?

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On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, A. Wallner wrote:

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|> What do the rest of you prefer? =A0Do you have both? =A0Do you still nee=
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|> to rely on your books or do you pretty well have the language down    |
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Memorizing things (whether for VHDL or something else) is pointless.

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|"> Is the IEEE VHDL standard available in e-book format? [..]"          |
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Yes.

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|"In my case it really depends.                                          |
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|I really like all three things...paper books and e-books                |
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|I think reading is much better on paper than on a PC monitor. (Here     |
|the Kindle sounds interesting, but in Austria it is not available). So  |
|I really prefer a book if I'm about to read a whole lot (e.g. book to   |
|learn a new programming language). It also has the advantage that you   |
|can have the book open, and read there while working on you code (I     |
|have two monitors, and most of the time when I'm programming VHDL or C+ |
|+ I use both monitors, so having a book is a real advantage)            |
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|But If I just have to refresh my memory about something (syntax, etc.)  |
|I prefer PDFs because of their searchability. I have the few book I     |
|use the most in both forms (paper and electronic) and choose depending  |
|on mood/what I want to do which to use."                                |
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Yes, it is good to have both for different contexts. At home I do not
want to waste money on electricity for a computer and a visual display
unit if all I am doing with the text is reading it. In the office,
copying and pasting or searching is more convenient with a computer.
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