For me the rationale for a single book is compelling- I'm confident that it will be a better, more coherent book than we have today.
I have PDFs of both on my iPhone (good when I don't get a seat on the subway), on my laptop (to search), and printouts in my backpack... ;-) Sent from my iPhone On Dec 8, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Domizio Demichelis <[email protected]> wrote: > Henry, > > 1. There is quite a few overlapping pages, so the resulting pages will not be > the sum of the books (at least in theory). Anyway, what is a "too big" book? > You will not have to carry it phisically, and even if you would, you would > have to carry 2 books however. I really don't see any advantage splitting the > pages into 2 documents instead of one: just disadvantages. > > 2. Two books with no criterion distinguishing them, is a pain in the neck > when you have to search some reference: for the Murphy law, what you are > searching will be always in the second one you search. :-) Besides, which one > is what you have to start with if you are n00b? > > 3. IMHO more books don't look better from an advertising point of view. I > lead an advertising agency for 8 years and I learned that you better focus on > one single target to avoid dispersion. If there aren't "The Holy Bible" and > "The Holy Bilble under the Hood"... it has to be for some good reason :-) > > ciao > dd > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Henry Baragar <[email protected]> > wrote: > I'm OK with leaving them a separate books. One is 236 pages, the other is 330 > page. A combined book would be at least 500 pages, which too big. Plus, more > books looks better from an advertising point of view. > Henry > On December 7, 2010 04:47:02 pm Owen Dall wrote: > > One was for tutorials and the other for reference, for looking "Under the > > Hood" :-) > > > > At the beginning there was one book, with a single chapter at the end > > containing all of what now comprises "Hobo at Work". > > > > I am all for merging them again, since we are no longer moving from Mac > > Pages to Mac Word 2008, and then Word 2007. :-) > > > > -Owen > > -- > Henry Baragar > Instantiated Software > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hobo Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Hobo Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en.
