I’m really happy to see this become public! Personally, I find PDFs nicer than paper books for multiple reasons (can listen to, can annotate and keep easier).
Was there anything in particular that convinced the team to make it public at this point?
Some combination of: (a) lots of people still wanted it, and we’re not sure our previous “idea inoculation” concerns are actually valid, and there’s something to testing the idea of giving people what they want; and (perhaps more significantly) (b) we’re making more of an overall push this year toward making our purpose and curriculum and strategy and activities and so on clear and visible so that we can dialog with people about our plans, and we figured that putting the handbook online might help with that.
I don’t know the answer; the team made their decision and then checked to see if I was okay with it; I wasn’t a part of any deliberations or discussions.
I assume that means you print them? Because I find pdfs to be the worst medium, compared to mobi, epub or html—mainly because I usually read from my phone.
I personally kind of like pdfs. PDF Expert on the ipad is pretty great; it crops things if you want, and I find pdfs good for annotation. My impression is that a lot of academics like pdfs for similar reasons (there are at least some valid reasons why they are popular).
There are also other programs that read pdfs aloud, which are kinda nice, though I’m sure similar exists for epub/mobi.
Actually, it seems like Speechify has a mode to see the actual PDF, which may be enough. Speechify does have a pretty pricey subscription fee (~$150/yr), but it isn’t necessary.
I’m really happy to see this become public! Personally, I find PDFs nicer than paper books for multiple reasons (can listen to, can annotate and keep easier).
Was there anything in particular that convinced the team to make it public at this point?
Some combination of: (a) lots of people still wanted it, and we’re not sure our previous “idea inoculation” concerns are actually valid, and there’s something to testing the idea of giving people what they want; and (perhaps more significantly) (b) we’re making more of an overall push this year toward making our purpose and curriculum and strategy and activities and so on clear and visible so that we can dialog with people about our plans, and we figured that putting the handbook online might help with that.
I don’t know the answer; the team made their decision and then checked to see if I was okay with it; I wasn’t a part of any deliberations or discussions.
Note: Anna Salamon has a public response on the FB post here (unsure to what extent it’s official)
https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3009193775781986?comment_id=3010905028944194&reply_comment_id=3011212968913400¬if_id=1578106302503606¬if_t=feed_comment_reply&ref=notif
I assume that means you print them? Because I find pdfs to be the worst medium, compared to mobi, epub or html—mainly because I usually read from my phone.
I personally kind of like pdfs. PDF Expert on the ipad is pretty great; it crops things if you want, and I find pdfs good for annotation. My impression is that a lot of academics like pdfs for similar reasons (there are at least some valid reasons why they are popular).
There are also other programs that read pdfs aloud, which are kinda nice, though I’m sure similar exists for epub/mobi.
What do you use to listen to pdfs?
I’ve tried Pocket, Speechify, and Voice Dream. Of these, Voice Dream seems to do the best at viewing the PDF while listening to it.
Actually, it seems like Speechify has a mode to see the actual PDF, which may be enough. Speechify does have a pretty pricey subscription fee (~$150/yr), but it isn’t necessary.