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>>< g > Hmm. I only have "Effective Techniques..." as an ebook from them. Maybe I ought to download "KiloFox" and a compare.
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>George,
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>On my "Effective Techniques", there is no search ability at all. "Kilofox" and "Hackfox" do have the ability to search. I have realized the font problems on Kilofox is only in the sections before sections before Chapter 1.
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>"HackFox" is the only one of the three that has an index. This *almost* makes up for the oddball chapter titles in the table of contents that provide absolutely no help at all.
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>Sometimes it is helpful to know the context of a topic. None of these 3 e-books provide a way to synchronize the current topic to the table of contents, so you can read topics that are conceptually related. The authors placed them side-by-side in the book, but the flow is lost in the e-book if you can't figure out what the next section is supposed to be (after doing a search).
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>More analysis than you cared for, but I repeatedly see people around here say they don't use the hard copy book...the e-book is enough for them. I just don't get it, I guess.
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>I have found all three books to be incredibly helpful, and highly recommend all of them to anyone who uses VFP...


HackFox is the only one I don't have, but so many people speak so highly of it that it must be very good. I'd have to agree about both Effective... and KiloFox. Hope Jim and Steve do a reprise for VFP 7.0.

>< SET PREVENT THREADDRIFT ON > *grin*
>I have found that the traditional, wire-based mouse works fine with these e-books.

I prefer the old fashion bound paper format myself. I don't have a laptop and moving my desktop into the "library" (AKA "Throne Room") is more work than I care to do, but you're right about the wire-based mouse.:-)