From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 5138 invoked from network); 8 Apr 2021 06:24:23 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Apr 2021 06:24:23 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id BCA089CABF; Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:24:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A829C723; Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:23:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 37DCB9C723; Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:23:48 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 526 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:23:46 AEST Received: from mailout7.ceti.pl (mailout7.ceti.pl [62.121.128.47]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F305D9C722 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:23:46 +1000 (AEST) Received: from tau1.ceti.pl (tau.ceti.pl [62.121.128.11]) by mailout7.ceti.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC3D37810F7 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:14:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by tau1.ceti.pl (Postfix, from userid 3727) id 93396960E24; Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:14:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 08:14:57 +0200 From: Tomasz Rola To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Message-ID: <20210408061457.GB4187@tau1.ceti.pl> References: <1617722131.1272.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: Re: [TUHS] (no printed copy) (was (no subject)) X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 03:32:20PM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Norman Wilson wrote: > > >I'm not sure why people, even in a group devoted to history like > >ours, focus so much on whether a journal is issued in print or > >only electronically. The latter has become more and more common. > > Well, curling up in bed with a good PDF just doesn't quite feel the > same... It's also handy in a waiting room (no battery to go flat > and not having to rely upon a WiFi connection) and also when waiting > for the local bus. Curling up in bed with e-ink based reader and pdf can be better than curling up with 2kg-worth of hard book. I know, I do it. As a huge fan of nonkindle reader, I have sdcard slot and do not have to connect it at all. Batteries used to last at least a month. This display type is really low power. I have recently bought a colored e-ink reader, I charged it up about 35-45 days ago, read for at least ten hours a week, and batt meter shows 40% (chances are, it is not calibrated yet, I am still to discharge it to the end). As of colours, this feels really like working prototype, they claim 4096 colors which probably means 256 colors on "colored look-through display" times 16 shades of grey on classic e-ink display underneath. So, color is just to spice it up a bit but not very useful at the moment... Albeit it depends on content. Art photo no, sci articles maybe. They should come to 65k one day, then I will be happier. > >On one hand, I too find that if something is available only > >electronically I'm more likely to put off reading it, probably > >because back issues don't pile up as visibly. > > I know the feeling :-) I'm slowly working through my bookmarks. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola, who lives in self made hell with walls of unread magazines, books and God only knows what else, new hardware, old hardware, lost hardware... -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **