Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

This is a little off topic, but the tie in is the unicode reading of text. It 
is only a matter of time before people read more comfortably on screen than 
on paper. CRTs are the hardest to read, but I find a LCD screen often easier 
to read (at least the ones that I worked with) than paper under flourescent 
lighting, and I hear that prototypes of the LED screens are even better. Most 
of the printing I see is for people who did not grow up with computers. I 
just asked my 16 year old son, and he claims he prefers to read text on 
screen. He wishes his college textbooks were electronic.

So electronic presentation on screen will be read, even long documents. 
That’s how I read Tanakh.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Rea <bsr15 AT cantsl.canterbury.ac.nz>

> Lance wrote:-
> 
> >Why should I buy a book when I can put a whole library (and a rather
> >large one, at that!) into a smaller space than the book would take?
> 
> Maybe not buy, but certainly you should use a book or print the portions
> from your electronic library if you wish to study effectively. Numerous
> studies have shown that humans comprehend text far better when it is on
> paper rather than on a computer screen. I write for a hobby and when it
> comes to finding and fixing the small problems in an article or poem,
> nothing beats printing it out, sitting down at a desk with a pen or pencil
> and going through it.
> 
> On a mailing list like this it would be useful to be able to see the
> Hebrew in question because we are usually talking about small pieces.
> But if you want to read anything more than a few verses I expect you'll
> want it on paper.
> 
> >what is certain is the digital form is going to replace all the
> >hardcopies.
> 
> There is nothing certain about this at all. What the ``digital
> revolution'' is doing is moving the place of printing from large
> centralized facilities to the end users.
> 
> Bill Rea, Information Technology Dept., Canterbury  University  \_
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