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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch
I also know of someone (who works for a company that is slowly and inexorably marching toward the paperless office) who dictates memos and has his assistant type them up and send them out as PDF attachments to e-mails. Why can't she just type it as an e-mail in his name and skip the middle step? I don't know. He likes memos.
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That's a habit that drives me crazy. I get emails from people all the time with a Word document attached that could have just been entered into the text of the email. It's just a couple of extra clicks, right? Those extra clicks (and the time I wait while Word drags itself out of bed, showers, gets dressed, and has its coffee) are the difference between a message I can read in a glance and respond to, and something I'll put off to deal with "until I have time." (Which could be never.)
I have sometimes succumbed to peer pressure in the past and brought a printed email agenda to a meeting, but I hate doing it.
I enjoy paper books, but I do see ebooks as a replacement for most paper books, mostly because of my present storage considerations.