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Well I thought that portability was everything too - and it is! as I can't lug a A4 binder with 3 inches of glossy paper around with me.

Until the weekend when I found I was racing away and very much more comfortable looking at real paper, and being able to flip back to a held page.
It's relevant that I find Kindles just not as good as the real thing either - I have had to struggle to accept that screen too - even at similar resolutions and contrasts.

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I agree. It's fine for fiction novels and the like where you generally read in one direction from cover to cover. But for reference materials or anything where you would look up an index or contents page I find it hopeless.

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People actually pay these?

Far out considering there are so many options not to.

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I agree. I'm currently doing MBA economics and use my text constantly. Not having a hard copy would be a nightmare.

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Yes, I have never understood why so many people choose to pay fees rather than move their banking. But so suggest changing banks is like offering to sacrifice people's kids...

It must be un-Australian or something...


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Any food product with "english style" written on the label - Add the word "traditional" to that equation to double the rip off.

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I'm going to add paying extra for 'tasty' or 'sharp' cheese, when in reality it all comes out of exactly the same place, and all tastes the same as the cheap-o rubbery home brand.


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Hmm, well as I say, horses and courses.

Personally the ability to virtually rip up the textbook and file the relevant bits with the relevant subjects, and integrate with other sources, in a non-linear relationship mindmap - leaves the linear textbook feeling 'plodding'. If I'm researching a subject nowadays I tend to view a paper text as a problem to be overcome in gaining understanding I need.

And as for 'index' and 'contents' - I feel advanced search options tends to trump both.

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I've had some success with light-weight novels, but I find the heavy-weights are far better in paper form.

I've had some success just using the search of course. But I prefer reading the paper - literally - word by word. This is only for old-fashioned studying, when line by line, with the occasional flip-back is required.

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When you are juggling pre-school/ school kids and a career - sometimes its hard getting around to up-sticking with accounts etc. I certainly can't be arsed to move my account - and then get my Missus on to something new as well. I don't think we pay many fees anyhow.

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must've been living on the moon for the last few years then!

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And to add insult to it my EA emailed me yesterday saying that the three day lag in their middle man releasing my money to them means that their ledger entries for me are registering me as a late payer. They suggested that I pay three days in advance to accomodate their dodgy system. :frown:

Note to self: before considering taking up future tenancies check that the EA accepts normal scheduled payment arrangements.

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Agreed. I use my kindle for novels and quick train time-killing reading, but for study I still prefer a text.

What pissed me off last semester was the required text for one of my courses was written by a prof at the university and surprise, surprise, only available from the university bookstore! To make matters worse the text itself was hardly used at all. Most of the readings were from government publications free online. :frown:

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Touchy subject but ..... Flood levies.

Sure we have to pay for it somehow, but bury it, hide it, go into debt for it and pay it off in the next government.

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The current system is somewhat silly. To qualify for federal funding roads & bridges need to be replaced exactly as they were. Up here we had a bridge wash away in 2011. It cost 6 million to replace [federal assistance provided] It washed away last week just three weeks after completion. To qualify for more funding it has to be rebuilt to the same design again.
Surely it would be easier to build it higher as engineers had suggested. Nope then it won't get federal funding. :thumbdown: