{"id":12234,"date":"2016-08-08T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/august-8-do-you-prefer-hardcover-softcover-or-electronic-books-what-are-the-benefits-of-your-preference\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T19:24:38","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:24:38","slug":"august-8-do-you-prefer-hardcover-softcover-or-electronic-books-what-are-the-benefits-of-your-preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/august-8-do-you-prefer-hardcover-softcover-or-electronic-books-what-are-the-benefits-of-your-preference\/","title":{"rendered":"August 8: Do you prefer hardcover, softcover, or electronic books? What are the benefits of your preference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like ebook versions of RPG texts, which are unfortunately as rare as hen&#39;s teeth. PDF is&#8230; fine. Not great. Pretty much unreadable on small screens (I sometimes have my phone&#39;s pdf viewer read them aloud while I drive, which is &#8230; differently sub-optimal), while larger screens are less easy to carry around.<\/p>\n<p>Paper books are the clear winner for any book I plan to reference a lot in play, because it&#39;s still too difficult to flip to another part of a text while &#39;holding your finger&#39; somewhere else in the book.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bonus Content:<\/b> I wrote about how to make e-readers suck less as reference tools three and a half years ago, with pictures &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/e-readers-suck-for-reference-materials-but-they-dont-have-to\/\">http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/e-readers-suck-for-reference-materials-but-they-dont-have-to\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if I&#39;m just <b>reading<\/b> something, electronic is fine.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish we could get away from PDFs and more toward ebook formats.<\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/105138568577624786912\/albums\/6316478714782401905\/6316478713545257234'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-xNuZ4C_ss7A\/V6ij7IAucRI\/AAAAAAABAO8\/cVM2Tuwaj50Zq1BUNvU40LEUg3ygE6JPA\/kindle_dx_diagram_3.jpg?imgmax=550' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url(\"\");'><\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like ebook versions of RPG texts, which are unfortunately as rare as hen&#39;s teeth. PDF is&#8230; fine. Not great.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,115,141],"class_list":["post-12234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-gaming","tag-google","tag-rpgaday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12235,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12234\/revisions\/12235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}