OT: Electronic episodes (was New Poll)

From: Andrew Barton <AndrewBarton_at_...>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 13:31:26 -0400

> The disadvantages are on the reader's side: no one really wants to read
long
> screen-based documents, (though this is changing as hardware and software
> adapt), so the reader needs access to a printer - and must be able to get
> quality black and white output as an alternative to colour.

The problem I've found is that text search facilities are much less flexible and efficient with PDF files than with ordinary text.

I've found that a serious disadvantage for PBM rulebooks, or anything I'm reading as a tester - in both cases I want to be able to keep the documents on computer. I don't see it as a disadvantage for novellas or anything that's intended to be read straight through. Scenarios would come somewhere in between.

Andrew