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VincentYu comments on Open Thread, October 16-31, 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: VincentYu 19 October 2012 03:41:42PM *  1 point [-]

I keep all of my books as PDFs on Mendeley. If a PDF is not available, I buy a hard copy through Amazon and send it to 1DollarScan to be converted to a scanned PDF.

I can't easily consult half a dozen [e]books at once.

In terms of screen estate, I agree, but in terms of looking for something in textbooks, I find it much easier to consult multiple ebooks at once, since I can easily search through tens of them in a second.