DaFranker comments on How To Have Things Correctly - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Alicorn 17 October 2012 06:10AM

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Comment author: DaFranker 19 October 2012 05:14:15PM *  1 point [-]

Add also:

  • which kind of books you want and their intended form of reading
  • how often you will want to search the contents
  • how often you might want to refer to the contents when applicable, such as reference books
  • whether you have the urge to press ctrl+f whenever you want to find something in a long text
  • how likely you are to immediately look up the definition of a word (perhaps in another tab or window) as opposed to just keep on reading and infer from context
  • other stuff that's easier to do when you've already got the text in electronic format and have direct access to search and lookup tools