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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I don't understand this. How is it better to browse in a setting where you can't tell the length of what you're buying and often don't have access to even a few pages to flip through,
and if you do, they're the first few pages; no flipping to the middle of a nonfic book and seeing if their charts are useful to you?
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When considering buying an ebook, all online ebook retailers I know of show you how many pages there are in an ebook.
I don't often buy non-fiction books, but I pretty much know what I want before I buy as it's usually a programming reference book or something like that, which comes recommended by a friend, associate or professional on the subject.
Barring that, there's plenty of sites online that will give detailed reviews and extracts of pretty much any book you care to read.
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I mostly buy PDF gaming books these days. If I want a paper copy for the charts and to share with other gamers, I'll print them out myself; I no longer prefer reading the book on paper.
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I find things faster by flipping through a book. PDFs are great, but there's nothing like just knowing where in a gaming book a rule or whatever is.
The difference between that and a PDF where if you flip fast through a PDF it has to be loaded into memory is an unnecessary delay.
Still, PDFs are great for reviewing whether I WANT to buy an RPG or game or whatever. But if I like it I will definitely want to buy a physical copy.