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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] (no printed copy) (was (no subject))
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 15:32:20 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2104081512360.44871@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1617722131.1272.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org>

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.

> 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.

-- Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-06 15:15 Norman Wilson
2021-04-08  5:32 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2021-04-08  6:14   ` Tomasz Rola
2021-04-08 13:51   ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-04-08 16:33     ` Adam Thornton
2021-04-12 15:47 Norman Wilson

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