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

[Jim Kinney]

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On September 25, 2021 9:07:24 PM EDT, Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>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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>Successful
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