Re: Book recommendation? For getting up to date (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

rbowman <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 21:51:51 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:05:32 -0300, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>> 
>>> It's much more pleasurable (to me) to read books off-screen.
>> 
>> You can’t do searches, though.
>
> For non-fiction a decent index does wonders. A good layout and talble of 
> contents also helps. Decorators? Chapter 14, page 254, all you ever wanted 
> to know about them. 

Well said.  But I still like the full-text search because very often I
want to cite a book and I remember the wording more or less, so I'm
looking for that exact point, which is easiest found by a full-text
search.  It's bloody useful to have an ebook form of the book.  It's
just not pleasant to read it.  I like to sort of lay back to read a book
and I can't quite do that on a desk.  I don't use computers off of
desks.  I don't care for phones or tablets.  Phones have a too small
screen and tablets are too big, too warm, don't bend like paper and are
just plain annoying, too. :) Paper is so much more concrete than a
screen.  No need to recharge them and so on.  Omg, I didn't know there
were so many reasons...  Funny is that the only real reason I really
have for no reading on-screen is that I just don't want to.