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Is physical literature still necessary for research? Personally I've scrapped physical research all together for databases, as well as websites that publish research papers. Don't know about anyone else's situation which I can get for no extra cost from my college and county library system. This is excluding keeping physical literature in case soykaf hits the fan.

>>1845 All the researchers I get in contact with are mostly using electronic papers and the ocasional ebooks, mostly in .pdf format. Physical books I see in the laboratory are currently being used as expensive monitor stands. The only thing that I currently miss is an ereader with A4 format screen that could render pdf articles. I sometimes get tired when reading for longer periods on computer screens.

>>1849 With todays prices of refilling ink cartidges (even hacking those that are unfillable) , why not simply print all things you want to read? I have had your problem for quite some time. Something about 60 Hz of the LCD that hurts my eyes and brain, but am liking the print solution... at least my room is filled with papers and makeshift books made out of wooden glue

>>1851 >why not simply print all things you want to read? Not him, but I already went through my "PRINT EVERYTHING!" phase. I love having physical media and sharing it, but I had a little space problem a while ago and decided to ditch all the papers and go full digital. Also, Ctrl + F is the most useful feature in the history of everything, and papers don't have that. Finding information in digital is way easier/faster than finding information in physical. >Something about 60 Hz of the LCD that hurts my eyes and brain I feel ya. I gave in a couple of weeks ago and I bought a Kindle e-reader and I love it to be honest. It's the closest you can get to paper in a screen, you can carry a soykafload of books in a small format and you can load pretty much any type of document in it. I seriously like it after modding it to take amazon bullsoykaf out of the way, obviously.

for papers that i'm referring to a lot, i like printing them out to be able to mark them up and easily spread a few out in front of me. generally electronic is fine though, especially when i'm just digging around.

>>1852 >Ctrl + F is the most useful feature in the history of everything In real life you can't "crtl+F", you have to use your brain to remember things and piece information together. This is why I like to have physical media, even if I am a messy person I still have to force myself to remember where I put things and what every paper is talking about. I might buy a kindle e-reader just for those akward time periods between waiting for something in which I could just carry something small to read.

>>1854 I agree about ctrl-F. Finding a certain line in a large text is useful ssometimes but not as important as absorbing the overall message or meaning organically. Oon a similar note, being able to stop and google everything whenever we want stunts our ability to infer meaning from context as well.