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K-Thom · 08-14-2009, 08:18 PM

Sonist, you are arguing as a child would. I would like to see you taking a paperback out of the shelves in a book store, walk up to the clerk and point out that this paperback never will be able to represent the same printing quality, layout and color intensity than that high gloss magazine over there.

What do you think he/she would answer? "Of course not, since this is a paperback and that over there is a magazine."

Nobody would read a lengthy novel in magazine format on magazine gloss paper, for very good reasons. Strain to the eye, paper will crease much more easily, handling, price, etc.

But this is what you expect people to do when advocating for PDF as if there weren't some very good reasons for co-existing different formats for different needs.

08-14-2009, 08:18 PM	#124
K-Thom The one and only Posts: 3,302 Karma: 535819 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Device: yup!	Sonist, you are arguing as a child would. I would like to see you taking a paperback out of the shelves in a book store, walk up to the clerk and point out that this paperback never will be able to represent the same printing quality, layout and color intensity than that high gloss magazine over there. What do you think he/she would answer? "Of course not, since this is a paperback and that over there is a magazine." Nobody would read a lengthy novel in magazine format on magazine gloss paper, for very good reasons. Strain to the eye, paper will crease much more easily, handling, price, etc. But this is what you expect people to do when advocating for PDF as if there weren't some very good reasons for co-existing different formats for different needs.