From: "Stephan Kämper" <Stephan.Kaemper@...>
Date: 2003-01-30T20:01:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Books -- A Question

Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0301291559390.2139-100000@eli.fsl.noaa.gov>,
> ahoward  <ahoward@fsl.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
>>On 29 Jan 2003, Mark Probert wrote:
>>
> Interesting idea... Personally, I can't read a book online.  I may use the 
> online Pickaxe for looking up things, but I'm not gonna sit down and read 
> it for any amount of time greater than a couple of minutes.  I think a lot 
> of people start out using the online version and then go out and buy the 
> dead-tree version.

I think you're completely right here. Personally I bought several 'books 
  on CD' like Meyers' 'Effective C++', and on or another '... CD 
Bookshelf' (by O'Reilly) and find myself buying paper version anyway.
They're far easier to read - perhaps a high quality flat screen moitor 
would help here (but I haven't found anyone to pay for it ;-)  ).
Unless copied to hard disk marking, underlining, and adding remarks - 
and corrections isn't possible on the CD.
And I'd never take my PC with me to read in bed anyway.

Sorry for being kind of OT...

Stephan