I agree with Ken's comment on the price - I was under the impression that books are expensive to typeset and print and bind, but CD's should be cheap, thus why user's manuals for software are no longer printed. Oh well, I guess they can demand whatever they want and we'll pay it, right? ;-) That said, I'm sure the development costs ain't cheap either. Having used some other "printed" manuals put on CD, they are really handy, especially when you have a thousand pages to flip through. Plus, having hyperlinked text in sections is a big help too. My more philosophical problem with Bentley manuals on CD-ROM is that in 20 years, I don't see my kids stumbling across it in the garage and going "Cool!" and reading it, they way I did with my dad's 1968 Transporter manual, or an old copy of Muir's book. There's no nostalgia in a shiny disk! Keith Adams Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia, 1998 Golf Wolfsburg Edition |
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