[Sigia-l] Texts in e-book (Microsoft/Adobe Reader) format

[Boniface Lau]

> From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org]On
> Behalf Of Tom Croucher
> 
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> 
> Even with a 22" monitor with a refresh rate of 100hz I still
> prefer reading a book. 

100hz should give very stable display. How about your monitor 
convergence? When the convergence is off even a little, reading 
text can be slow and tiring.

I like reading on a monitor so much that when a book comes with an
HTML version on CDROM, I put away the paper copy and read the HTML
version. I prefer to read the online version of newspaper over the
paper version. I even wrote my own web page highlighter so that I can
highlight whatever that I happened to come across on the web just like
I highlight on paper using a highlighter pen. The electronic highlight 
are then saved locally and an indexer running on the background 
automatically indexes the saved articles.

With monitor technology like Trinitron, reading on a monitor can be as
comfortable and fast as reading on paper.


Boniface