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Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by vog on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:58AM (#13463032)
The only issue is that Ctrl+F doesn't work properly on paper, neither within a single newspaper, not across last year's newspapers.
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by jdietrich on Monday January 23, 2017 @07:55PM (#13467889)
I recently read a printed book for the first time in ages and had a really weird experience. I wanted to find a particular passage, but muscle memory took over and I found myself pressing Ctrl-F on my leg. For a fraction of a second, I thought that the book was broken. It took me a moment to remember to look in the index.

It really threw me for a loop. Electronic texts are so pervasive in my life that I had half forgotten how to interact with a printed book. My automatic familiarity with print had faded enough that I was consciously aware of the properties of the medium. I was frustrated by the inability to zoom in on diagrams or copy and paste. The margins weren't big enough for my notes. There was no autogenerated list of highlighted passages. I felt like a child confronted with a VHS tape or a classic Gameboy.

I grew up obsessed with books. At the back of my desk drawer, there's a little envelope containing the membership cards for eleven different library services. For most of my life, I rarely went anywhere without a book to hand. I spent a large part of my adolescence digging through the dustier shelves of second-hand book shops. Still, I can't shake the feeling that print is largely obsolete. I don't feel nostalgic about books, I'm just frustrated that so few of them are available in digital format.

Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by adtac on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:03AM (#13463080)
I think I got a solution - every article is accompanied by a QR code that you can scan to open a searchable version of the exact same text. Just a couple of seconds away and you don't lose the papery-feel either.
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by bitwize on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:13PM (#13463716)
We could provide a device -- say, in a nice friendly shape like a cat -- that can read these codes and open up the relevant text on their PC or iPad or whatever! What could possibly go wrong?
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by __jal on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:23PM (#13465640)
Man, brilliant! The VCs and media companies won't be capable of leaving you alone!

...I think I still have one of those in a junk-box somewhere.

Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by CodeCube on Monday January 23, 2017 @02:29PM (#13465134)
cue the music!
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by athenot on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:40AM (#13463442)
Skip the QR code and let the article itself be a code. Some magagines have implemented that already. It takes a specialized reader app but then the paper is not littered with QR codes all over.

Of course the lo-tech version is simply google the title and chances are you'll find the digital version of the article.

Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by 24gttghh on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:16AM (#13463201)
Why not ditch the QR code and have an app that takes a photo of text and lets you perform ctrl+f on the image?
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by dack on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:30AM (#13463342)
because you still couldn't search across pages
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by paulofmandown on Monday January 23, 2017 @01:31PM (#13464533)
This is the distilled version of my opinion. You get so many more useful tools to analyze and search data when it's digital.
Re:Paper is the real 'killer app' by rokhayakebe on Monday January 23, 2017 @12:40PM (#13463992)
No worries, AR glasses coming soon.