[ale] Print vs electronic: Was: Remove systemd network handling

[Leam Hall]

For me it's more choice than issue. I mostly read technical books, and have to flip back and forth between the graphic description and the text. Harder to do with an ereader. With fiction I get through a page fairly quickly, though I'm by no means super fast. Reading on my computer is less desirable; my office is always the warmest room in the house, and I haven't talked myself into a comfortable chair yet. Since I spend most of the day here, being elsewhere is a nice break. I can sit in the living room with a book, and not have to stare at a screen.

Which is kind of funny, since the few books I've published are ebooks only.  :)

Leam

On 9/25/21 5:18 PM, Bob Toxen via Ale wrote:
> Uh, I swap foreground/background colors to show white text on a black background,
> for decades.  MUCH EASIER on the eyes!
> 
> As I've aged I increase font size.
> 
> Bob
> 
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
>> Leam Hall via Ale said on Fri, 24 Sep 2021 18:36:18 -0500
>>
>>> On 9/24/21 6:10 PM, Steve Litt via Ale wrote:
>>>
>>>> And who in 2021 would write a document on printed
>>>> paper?
>>>>
>>>> SteveT
>>>
>>> *raises hand slowly*
>>>
>>> Easier on my old eyes, and I read fast enough that a kindle slows me
>>> down.
>>
>> Yeahhh, for the most part the dead trees argument was sparring between
>> two guys with a very different view of the world, and can safely be
>> ignored. But because one of the things I do for a living is write,
>> produce and publish books, I'm very interested in your preceding
>> sentence.
>>
>> It sounds to me like printed documents are actually easier on your
>> eyes, I presume giving you less eye strain, headaches, etc. Is this
>> because of the glaring white background, or some other reason? If the
>> glaring white background, do your devices give you the option of using
>> a light tan background? Does that help?
>>
>> Some people (like me) have no choice but to read electronic docs,
>> because we can't comfortably focus on anything less than 15 point. A
>> normal paperback printed in a font I can read would be five or six
>> inches thick, whereas on a device I can crank it up to clock face type
>> size and read comfortably. Does your eyesight restrict the font size you
>> can read?
>>
>> Are you one of those people able to read line by line instead of word
>> by word? If so, I can well imagine that five or six words per line
>> would slow you down. On mobile devices, have you tried turning the
>> device landscape so you get longer lines? Of course, doing so means you
>> have to page down much too often, and that would slow you down.
>>
>> Do you ever consider reading on your computer monitor? Doing so would
>> solve the words per line and lines per page problems, but would
>> eliminate the portability most people require.
>>
>> I can't go back to printing my books; it's economically infeasible now
>> that I have to compete with PDF and ePub books. But I *can* work to
>> bring the benefits of printed books to my PDFs and ePubs.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
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