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Old 01-25-2011, 08:10 PM   #63
Dulin's Books
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Originally Posted by jdav View Post
One point in favour of a manual trawl through a paper book looking for a certain character or fact, is that in your effort to find the relevant paragraph, your journey through the pages forces you to recap on much of the content. A kind of enforced revision. This results in a better knowledge of the whole book. An electronic search usually takes you instantly to the right paragraph, time is saved but you don't gain the benefit of revision. This is of course mostly relevant to academic use.
thats what i miss . stumbling upon something else when you are leafing through to find a particular passage or item. in a dictionary or encyclopedia it can take you off in a whole new time wasting tangent of discovery. one of my favorite things
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