On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 2:35 PM John R Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Paper journals / magazines get read on the plane, while on the phone, etc.
>> Electronic ones get ignored / deleted.
Alternative fogey here -- my Kindle goes with me on the plane and
whatever's on it tends to be what I read. For the IETF J it's not really
a fair comparison since the electronic version is full page PDFs which are
hard to read on anything smaller than a notebook computer or a very large
tablet.
The IEEE (most likely at vast cost) does a good job of publishing journals
in multiple formats. They publish their journals in three electronic
formats, EPUB, MOBI, and AZW3, as well as page image PDF that matches the
printed version. Getting them onto the Kindle is about three clicks, one
to download the MOBI, one to open it with the Send to Kindle program, one
to tell it to send to the Kindle rather than (or in addition to) my phone.
Yup, have a Kindle, and love it -- but the process for paper journal is:
Step 1: stuff in bag
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit
Reading it inline at airports / on the loo / while waiting for code to finish compiling is much much more convenient for me than Kindle (which lives next to bed / in travel bag) - if I drop the paper version it doesn't really matter...
I've also given away a number of the paper versions to people on planes - while I could mail an electronic version, somehow the paper experience is very different (for me).
I read Usenix Security / ACM / IEEE mags in paper - while these are all available in electronic versions I've never read them in this format (other than when I've searched for a specific article and read that article).
W
R's,
John
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I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place.
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants.
---maf
This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants.
---maf