David Beck's Blog

I have never enjoyed reading physical books. The user experience is all wrong. My thumbs get soar from holding the pages open, you have to hold it to the light just right so the curl of the pages don’t cast a giant shadow, it’s difficult to search and you need your own light source. I really don’t understand people that are attached to the physical book.

This isn’t a recent feeling either; I’ve been looking forward to digital books as long as I can remember, but up until now I didn’t really have an option. The Kindle has done a lot to get books published in digital form bit up until recently it wasn’t possible to get a book legally for any device. Read More »

Filed under: User Experience

Wednesday I picked up a copy of “Robot Building for Beginners” from the library and am now almost done with it. I have read several other books on robots and electronics, but this is the first that isn’t a complete waste of paper.
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Filed under: Electronics