13 May
2022
13 May
'22
7:52 a.m.
heading off-piste, the Boox series are also worth looking at. Android,
anything android can do, a boox will do slowly in eInk. their version
of the reMarkable markup thing may not be as "good" but its the
alternate, and alternate pricepoint.
when I think about the BSD manuals, bound with steel rods, in a metal
construct welded to the desk at the back of the lab. Wonderful source
of knowledge. Or.. the VMS fiche set, and the reader. you want to fix
this problem? ok, if you learn Bliss32, then everything is in this
stack of blue-grey plastic, if your eyes are good enough. No peeking.
I think the experiential aspects of 2D thinking with pens, on paper
are lost online. I totally don't engage with "visualisations" beyond
the very very good. It is very easy to avoid having to say why by
falling back on "my eyes aren't good" or "I don't understand
this" but
in truth, I dont LIKE them. I like paper, and I miss fanfold printout.
Plus. I liked taking the boxes of it to kindergarden and handing them
over for the kids to write on.
On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 11:33 AM Michael Parson <mparson(a)bl.org> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Feb 2022, John Cowan wrote:
On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 12:39 PM Seth J. Morabito
<web(a)loomcom.com> wrote:
Besides, it's fun to scribble notes all over printouts and Xeroxes :^)
I mark up a printout with scribbles ("hourglasses and arrows and a
documentation resource for each one, sayin' what they was about, to be used
in evidence against us"[*]) and then re-transcribe them into the original
electronic doc. I wish I had a better approach that wasn't so
environmentally destructive, but I just don't notice errors as easily when
they're just on the screen.
Have you looked into e-ink tablets? The reMarkable series seems to be
pretty popular. I recently got a Boox Nova Air e-ink tablet, works
great as an e-reader, but it also has a pretty decent PDF editor built
in that lets you scribble all over PDF docs like they're paper.
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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX