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Jebnor:

--- Quote from: AoE Grand on August 24, 2018, 09:40:48 am ---Art of Electronics Going Digital
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How valuable would an enriched digital edition be for you?
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David Tranah
Cambridge University Press
aoegrand@cambridge.org

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Not at all.   I've been through too many "Textbooks" that lose "Enriched content" after one use, or when the enrichment company decides to "Upgrade".     A companion App would be quickly useless and forgotten about. Further,   The enriched content of Cambridge University Press has a different interface than the other enriched content, which is different than the next one and so on.   A dead-tree with ink doesn't change interface that I need to re-learn how to use, or have hidden objects that only reveal themselves when accessed via a particular (5+deep?) series of clicks.

If I'm going to buy a book, I want to BUY the book so I can keep on my shelf for reference for years and I can pass on the knowledge to whoever want to read it.

Have you seen "The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth?  It's a series of Tomes, which I am glad to pay $100 each for, because they are great.  If AoE is the same standard as it has been, I'll gladly pay a pretty penny for it.

Jeb
Hypernova:
Dead tree version as physical heirloom to worship at on the altar. PDF for actual use and errata correction.
exe:
I'd say no matter what will be the final decision, it's totally worth making a plain old pdf. It's zero efforts to produce (not sure how much it takes to publish, drm considerations, etc), so go for it.

Ideally, I would like to have a pdf of every book I buy. I can even pay bit extra (but not too much as for me I'm not buying a book or a file, I'm buying content, which is the same not matter what media).
CJay:

--- Quote from: colorado.rob on November 08, 2018, 01:43:11 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on November 07, 2018, 01:35:35 pm ---That's actually a good point. Anything you read linearly (fiction etc) works fine on the computer (or ebook reader). Jumping around, paper!

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I'm the opposite -- linear reading works fine on paper, but if I need to follow references or search for something, I want an electronic medium.  Google is a hell of a lot better at indexing a document than any living editor I have found.  You cannot "control-F" a book.

So, that's my biggest want: a Google-indexed document that can also be read off-line on a tablet.

That said, I have a fetish for hard-bound books.  And keep AoE3 within ready reach in my office.

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And CTRL-F works beautifully if you're only reading one document, definitely useful, I agree.

However, if you've half a dozen documents I find it becomes way more tricky to cross reference and flip between/compare unless you have a screen large enough to display them side by side or a screen for each document.

As for dead tree fiction, yeah, I do like my books and some I only ever read on paper (Marvin Minsky, The Turing Option for one, all the Pratchett books), but I find my Kindle Paperwhite has become my go to on most occasions, if a book really grabs me then it might make it onto my bookshelf in physical form too.
apblog:

--- Quote from: Richard Crowley on November 07, 2018, 01:00:44 pm ---It is the 21st century.  Do we still favor smears of black stuff on beaten mats of tree fiber?

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Yes!

To AoE Grand:  A PDF would be great as long as it doesn’t delay the print version.  Also, the only feature I want in a PDF is links from the ToC and index to the contents.
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