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User currently offlinePe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 19023 posts, RR: 53
Posted (3 years 3 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1477 times:

In the age of the Internet and seemingly ever-increasing convenience, do you like PDF magazines/articles, i.e. those that you can read whenever you want online or print-off and read?


"Everyone writing for the Telegraph knows that the way to grab eyeballs is with Ryanair and/or sex."
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User currently offlineBraybuddy From Ireland, joined Aug 2004, 5480 posts, RR: 34
Reply 1, posted (3 years 3 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1473 times:

Reading online is great for browsing headlines and reading small articles. I'll browse the Irish Times, Irish Independent, the BBC for world news (Times until it started charging) in the morning before heading to work. Don't know why, but I just don't have the patience to read long articles online. The physical newspaper or magazine is irreplaceable here, although I rarely buy magazines nowadays. I'd buy one maybe for a flight or a particular article I wanted to read, and that's it.

User currently offlinePe@rson From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 19023 posts, RR: 53
Reply 2, posted (3 years 3 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1466 times:

Quoting Braybuddy (Reply 1):
Don't know why, but I just don't have the patience to read long articles online. The physical newspaper or magazine is irreplaceable here,

Of course, I don't know the actual length when you say 'long articles'. For me, I could easily read an article of, say, 2,000 words online. But, you could always print it out in B&W at your leisure and read it whenever you want. I do that sometimes.

[Edited 2010-09-10 03:42:25]


"Everyone writing for the Telegraph knows that the way to grab eyeballs is with Ryanair and/or sex."
User currently offlineBraybuddy From Ireland, joined Aug 2004, 5480 posts, RR: 34
Reply 3, posted (3 years 3 months 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 1453 times:

Quoting Pe@rson (Reply 2):
Of course, I don't know the actual length when you say 'long articles'. For me, I could easily read an article of, say, 2,000 words online. But, you could always print it out in B&W at your leisure and read it whenever you want. I do that sometimes.

I'm talking about anything in-depth, so I'd probably go up to 2,000 if an article caught my eye, but longer than that it would really have to be compelling to read it online. I think I've printed-out half a dozen articles over the last ten years. Again it would really have to interest me to print it out, and if it did interest me that much I'd probably stick with it online.

The internet is wonderful for browsing, and that probably works against it for longer periods of concentration (for me, anyway). WiIth your finger on the mouse it's just that little bit TOO easy to move on to something else. I can understand why schools are seeing a lack of concentration in kids.

User currently offlineAustrianZRH From Austria, joined Aug 2007, 1304 posts, RR: 0
Reply 4, posted (3 years 3 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1440 times:

The news and such, I read online. When I want to read scientific publications, I print them. Much more convenient to flip forward and backward and IMHO, the place you stopped before looking up a reference or a figure is way easier to find again compared to the pdf on your computer screen.


WARNING! The post above should be taken with a grain of salt! Furthermore, it may be slightly biased towards A.
User currently offlineZkpilot From New Zealand, joined Mar 2006, 4749 posts, RR: 10
Reply 5, posted (3 years 3 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 1419 times:

Find them irritating...they would probably be ok if you had the full acrobat program but just the reader is a PITA


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