Bruce;

Hope you are having a good day in this "almost perfect world".

This is the wave of the future! Soon there will be no books. Now being a speed-reader I find it a pain to read a small screen full of information that glares at me unlike a book. This same screen produces radiation and comes with warnings about ones health. I was taught that "Books are Friends"! What the hell is a CRT? :)

Old habits die hard or not at all. I have read over 17,000 books in my lifetime – yes I keep track! I cannot imagine using a computer to read anything serious but that is the “vision” we are getting from many sources. Reading anything from a computer screen is like being in the first grade in grammar school. This is my dog Spot. See Spot run. Run Spot run. It is limited!

Can you imagine doing research (as I have done for many years) without having available several books opened at the same time and book marked? By the way I NEVER mark a book with a pen or other such object but do use a bookmark. Some people use a yellow marking pen. I have seen some people mark everything they read. I guess that allows them to know “where they have been”!

Now how do those old timers who mark books react to reading a CRT? I have it! Just follow what we learned from Winky Dink! Markup your CRT baby! In case you are too young to know about Winky Dink or did not have a TV back in the stone age like we did, use google.com to learn a little – maybe.

So a business decision was made with the latest version of the Hackers Guide. Now we all have to jump up and down and agree what a great decision it was. Just think like the Lemmings and head for the cliff! Do not express yourself as this might upset the gods and demi-gods – self professed or otherwise.


Tom


>Having a client that has painfully slow internet access and will only provide a 2x cdrom makes using or downloading the chm impractical. I use the book also to relieve eyestrain. In general I am not bothered by the size of the tomb. If I were to have my choices met the rest of the book could be put on chm and chapter 4 printed. My 6.0 version is in pristine condition for everything but chapter four which is used the most. Everybody but me may find this to be completely the reverse of how I perceive things. But the point of the books usefullness is chapter four and my ability to hawl it where my clients are located. My apologies for being so retro but I stare at a screen to much and find the book usefull
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>Bruce