I'm likely to be a print guy till I die. At least at the table. I've yet to be able to afford an IPAD or EReader that can match me just knowing stuff, or pulling a book out and looking. But what about at your table? I also had a few bad experiences with players using electronic devices at the table. ("Check out this [Crap online here]!")

I like them both in different ways and for different reasons.

0one Games is THE best electronics publisher out there right now because they thoroughly use the fact that they have electronic products instead of just scanning their stupid print product. They're amazing.

While I have .pdfs I am moving back to print only. .pdfs are just unusable during a game and just slows things own

Print, definitely. While PDFs are gaining ground in tandem with those wretched things folks 'read' them on, I can see a backlash coming. e-Readers are helpful for housing works of reference like dictionaries and encyclopedias etc., and conceivably for telephone directory source books like Victoriana, but there's nothing like holding a physical book in one's hands, and it's much easier to flip real pages to check stuff IMO, although I admit it could be a generational thing.

Funnily enough I was at a min-con here in the UK a month ago, and there was a trader there with whom I got into conversation. At one point I asked him the burning question de nos jours: Do folks still buy physical books or do they generally prefer PDFs nowadays? By way of a reply, he gestured to a display of plastic crates on his table chock full of books, commenting that he hadn't seen a significant decrease in demand for them, and that there might even have been an increase, depsite the current depression (I'm sorry politicians, it's not a recession) eating into people's budgets.

What he did say though was that many publishers now put out both a hard copy and a free PDF download at the same time, thus (hopefully) satisfying all sections of the market.

Really? Why?



I almost certainly think it is. But I prefer to read physical books and can't afford a decent e-Reader.

so why are you jumping to the defence of e-readers?

That's a defense? Yikes, sensitive.

Uhm...I'm not defending them. I just realize they're very popular, and increasingly more common place-especially as they become cheaper, and more effective tools. I'm not sure how not confusing my personal preference with what is really happening in the world around me equates to a defense of eReaders, but I'll live.

I personally have no plans of buying an eReader any time soon as I've had a few less than stellar experiences at the gaming table with people playing on the IPAD's instead of actually playing the game. But I realize my experiences are not necessarily as common place in the larger picture. I hear numerous reports, mostly online, of people who've been successfully integrating technology at their table.

Does this mean I support the Machine Revolution? Crap.

Very much a print guy. But looking at the sales numbers for my game, it looks like my PDF is the strongest seller.

As I said before, I am a print guy and before anyone criticizes what I said about .pdfs, I did give them a fair shake and try to use them for games (both as a player and a GM) and they just didn't work