Unless you use an app like Liquid Copy (on iPad) which makes all that very easy.
I’m doing a lot of technical book reading that way. Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 1 Mar 2019, at 23:11, Andrew Rowley <and...@blackhillsoftware.com> wrote: > >> On 2/03/2019 4:55 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> I can see making copies for laptops off of the Internet, but dead tree? I wish I didn't believe you. >> > You can tell the people who learned from printed manuals from those who > use only softcopy ones - the people who learned from softcopy ask "How > do I do..." and the people who learned from hardcopy answer them. > (Mostly joking!) > > I suspect most of us on this list are old enough to have started in > mainframe with hardcopy manuals. We may not appreciate how difficult it > is to learn z/OS without them. > > When learning a complex new concept, a hardcopy manual where you can > stick a finger in a page, flip backwards, view multiple pages at once, > refer to another chapter etc. is much easier than softcopy. Is it > surprising that a 1000 page manual contains information that softcopy > users never see? > > There's a couple of manuals I print in full, more often I will print a > chapter or 2. Even then the majority of time I use softcopy, but > occasionally when it's a complex topic and my brain starts to strain I > pull out the hardcopy. I almost always learn something new as I flip > through to the correct chapter. > > I could postulate that the technologies that have met with most > resistance on the mainframe (e.g. z/OS Unix, Java) are those that came > along after the switch to softcopy manuals, so people never had the > opportunity to read and learn from hardcopy. > > > Andrew Rowley > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
