"Mitchell Waite" <mit### [at] dnaicom> wrote in message
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> Question for this group. How do you feel about a book in a PDF format and

While others have covered this topic, I still feel uncomfortable about this.
PDF's are just too easy to 'share'. Yes, people can scan real books too, but
IMO giving someone a book in electronic form just makes it too easy.

> how do you feel about buying eBooks vs paper based books. Check out

As others have pointed out, most folk don't like reading electronic books in
front of a monitor. I've even gone to the trouble of getting the duplexer
attachment for my inkjet so I can easily print out technical documents I get
sent from time to time. It's horribly slow but at least works.

Most folks would want to get a hard-copy, but to do that well, at home, is
difficult for any book of reasonable size (at least, if you want to duplex
it).

Personally I have my doubts about putting commercial POV-Ray books in eBook
form. The docs are free and do a reasonable job (at least in my opinion) and
already occupy that niche.

-- Chris

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