Re: Linux in a Nutshell (O'Reilly book)

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Bill Lindley <wlindley@wlindley.com> wrote:
> Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> It[']s obvious to anyone who is serious about development
>> that a few google queries rivals what you can find in any printed
>> technical manual
> Except that until you know what you're trying to ask, you can't ask
> Google for it.
>
> Books and printed man-pages are far more readable than text on a
> screen.  It's nearly impossible to assimilate large amounts of
> information from a scrolling webpage

this particular problem has been addressed by the kindle, there is no
scrolling or luminosity. It looks and behaves like a page of paper.
BTW- there are real physiological problems with staring at a screen,
your eye makes very small palpitations attempting to focus on
something that cannot be focused on (less so for LCD). This causes
unnatural fatigue, the effects of which we dont fully understand.
I've held a Kindle and there is a clear value there- how well their
delivery network performs (for both authors and readers) is another
story.

-jmz


> -- you need a book or magazine or
> printout.
>
> O'Reilly books generally have by far the highest content-to-noise ratio.
>
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