I don’t like PDFs because Word Documents can be sent to your Kindle, which makes them more convenient for me. Edit: Apparently, this isn’t so. Never mind then!
One other comment: I like being able to annotate things, or copy/paste parts of things, and I know more about how to do that in Word or with a Kindle.
In case you are wondering why people have downvoted you, it’s because you have bastardized the computing usage of ‘portable’ almost beyond recognition. Word documents are one of the classic examples of unportable file formats—formats locked into Microsoft software, which are portable neither over time nor computing platforms.
Although it might also just be because you are apparently wrong when you say you can’t email a PDF to your Kindle like you can your Word documents.
(Even the XML MS format is pretty terrible, as groups like Groklaw analyzed back when MS first began pretending it was a real alternative to OOXML.)
Thank you for explaining that! I didn’t realize “portable” had a technical meaning; I was reffering to how I can carry them around on a Kindle. I’ve edited the grandparent.
I don’t like PDFs because Word Documents can be sent to your Kindle, which makes them more convenient for me. Edit: Apparently, this isn’t so. Never mind then!
One other comment: I like being able to annotate things, or copy/paste parts of things, and I know more about how to do that in Word or with a Kindle.
In case you are wondering why people have downvoted you, it’s because you have bastardized the computing usage of ‘portable’ almost beyond recognition. Word documents are one of the classic examples of unportable file formats—formats locked into Microsoft software, which are portable neither over time nor computing platforms.
Although it might also just be because you are apparently wrong when you say you can’t email a PDF to your Kindle like you can your Word documents.
(Even the XML MS format is pretty terrible, as groups like Groklaw analyzed back when MS first began pretending it was a real alternative to OOXML.)
I approve of explaining heavily-downvoted posts (FSVO ‘heavily’). Thank you on behalf of LessWrong!
Thank you for explaining that! I didn’t realize “portable” had a technical meaning; I was reffering to how I can carry them around on a Kindle. I’ve edited the grandparent.
You may find these links helpful for understanding what people expect ‘portable’ to mean in a computer context:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_portability
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/portabilitychapter.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_format
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataPortability
Aaaaand also upvoting this for related reasons.