Posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2013, at 18:57:30
In reply to print vs e reading, posted by alexandra_k on August 23, 2013, at 18:42:54
some things are worth the learning curve.
i think it was during my honors year (about 10 years ago) that one of my lecturers walked in on me doing the two-finger walz (i was pretty quick at it, actually) and said that if i wanted an academic career then i best learn to touch type because most of my life was going to be spent in front of the computer screen.
i did a typing course for my first year of high school so knew where my fingers were supposed to go (for letters and basic punctuation) so it really was just a matter of doing it that way and sucking up being slower for a while.
so i did.
and it took maybe two months.
and then i was faster at touch typing. and eventually i found myself looking at my fingers less and now i can type at a slow talking speed transcribing from textbooks or whatever.
i wonder if going paperless is a bit like that. i used to need to print my work really very regularly indeed. i do it less frequently now. it is still an important part of the process, but need (lack of a printer) has resulted in my developing a better sense of how things are looking with the online document.
i think nasty things are happening to computers as computer people try and take measures to protect copyright. i was hoping that with the purchase of my new mac i could put the new OS etc on my old mac... but turns out i couldn't because i didn't get the OS disks. I don't like that. what if i NEED the OS disks? i guess my registering (which i had to do to get things working properly) provides a record so the mac store people will do that for me or something... i guess that is how that is supposed to go.
you can read a lot of books via online library access... but they are truly horrible to read online. the viewer only shows you a tiny amount of words. why does WOrd have so much white space... screens get bigger but programs take up even more space than they ever used before with clutter and sh*t you will never use. sh*t sh*t sh*t why is everythign full with sh*t? is it giving jobs to people who have nothing better to do? but there is so much wrong with the world why is there junk work when there is so much not junk work needing to be done?
this e-thing scares me.
how much money should one have to pay to be able to access academic journals / books.
anyone can walk in and view the print collections...
i do in fact worry that *poof* it will all collapse one day. not just the loss of thesis...
all of it...
so intangible... does it truly exist? everything... everything important of value my whole life... a whisper. not quite graspable. i feel like it is just outside of my mental reach most of the time.
i guess that is why i like weightlifting. brings be back down to earth.
and the feel of a textbook. solid. reassuring. carry that around for a while and your relationship to it is differet. precisely because it is awkward. heavy. it weighs on your mind to be sure. and that is the point.
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