I think PDF files for manuals are okay, but sometimes I have to view one on one machine while doing the thing I need to read about on the other machine. Duh, this sucks. I have to tie up *two* of my home machines at the same time, and when I have some machine-to-machine stuff going on between my Windoze and Linux box, I have to get the notebook out as a third machine just to read the manual (because it sucks swapping back and forth between a PDF window and the thing I'm trying to do. No biggie if I were at work, but I'm at home tying up multiple machines (because I hate flipping back and forth from window to window to read the text and then do the thing I'm doing). Besides, the software companies are keeping the prices the same (or increasing them) and giving us software packages now with NO book! WTF, over? Is this Kansas anymore, Toto? Kill a tree for me, because I want to read about my stuff on the bus without loading the text into my PalmPilot. Sheez! Just provide both; we (the users) will sort of the details... Like anyone's really going to listen to me here in this forum anyway...:-)
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I think PDF files for manuals are okay, but sometimes I have to view one on one machine while doing the thing I need to read about on the other machine. Duh, this sucks. I have to tie up *two* of my home machines at the same time, and when I have some machine-to-machine stuff going on between my Windoze and Linux box, I have to get the notebook out as a third machine just to read the manual (because it sucks swapping back and forth between a PDF window and the thing I'm trying to do. No biggie if I were at work, but I'm at home tying up multiple machines (because I hate flipping back and forth from window to window to read the text and then do the thing I'm doing). Besides, the software companies are keeping the prices the same (or increasing them) and giving us software packages now with NO book! WTF, over? Is this Kansas anymore, Toto? Kill a tree for me, because I want to read about my stuff on the bus without loading the text into my PalmPilot. Sheez! Just provide both; we (the users) will sort of the details... Like anyone's really going to listen to me here in this forum anyway... :-)