Re:402: Payment Required
by simoncion on Monday October 05, 2015 @11:15PM
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> The goal of good writing is, in part, to permanently change the reader.
This is a lofty goal. Very little on The Web comes within shooting distance of it. What's more, it has little to do with the fact that paying for access to soft copies of material is -unfortunately- [0] quite a bit different than paying for hard copies of the same thing.
> > Nobody does that with web articles.
> Have you never referred back to the same web resource?
Unless it's a reference manual or similar such thing, almost never. Even the issues of SciAm that I did save were saved for the sections that could be used as reference manuals. Frankly, I'm not one for sentiment. :)
> Have you ever emailed an article to yourself to read it later...
I've emailed the URL to an article to myself to read later because I was either
* too busy with another task at the time to read it, but it looked like it was related to another one of my projects
* on a smartphone, which is often terrible for reading idea-heavy material
[0] I say "unfortunately", because it seems that "most" people don't understand how to save complete copies of online resources to their local machine.
This is a lofty goal. Very little on The Web comes within shooting distance of it. What's more, it has little to do with the fact that paying for access to soft copies of material is -unfortunately- [0] quite a bit different than paying for hard copies of the same thing.
> > Nobody does that with web articles.
> Have you never referred back to the same web resource?
Unless it's a reference manual or similar such thing, almost never. Even the issues of SciAm that I did save were saved for the sections that could be used as reference manuals. Frankly, I'm not one for sentiment. :)
> Have you ever emailed an article to yourself to read it later...
I've emailed the URL to an article to myself to read later because I was either
* too busy with another task at the time to read it, but it looked like it was related to another one of my projects
* on a smartphone, which is often terrible for reading idea-heavy material
[0] I say "unfortunately", because it seems that "most" people don't understand how to save complete copies of online resources to their local machine.