Re:Ceasing Print Publication of ACM Journals and Transactions
by coldacid on Friday October 27, 2023 @08:17AM
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I'd be interested to know both of your ages; I'm assuming, mananaysiempre, that you're probably under 30, and that mellosouls, like myself, is over 40. With some exceptions it seems like there is a generation gap between those of us who prefer the written word on paper, and those who prefer it on a screen of some sort, with the latter group tending to be those who've essentially grown up with digital gadgets of all sorts.
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Re:Ceasing Print Publication of ACM Journals and Transactions
by mananaysiempre on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:50PM
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You’re not wrong on the facts, but I don’t think they support your conclusion. I’m 30, but I’ve only had a broadband internet connection since I was 15 and a touchscreen smartphone since I was 18.
I’d say there are two reasons from my reading from screens a lot: as far as the last couple of years go, if you know of a way to ship two bookcases or so from Moscow, Russia, to somewhere in the sane(r) world without spending prohibitive amounts of money (or having to return there in person), I’d very much appreciate it; before that, it’s not like ex-Soviet libraries stock any English-language technical or scientific literature issued after 1990, and paying the extra 50% for a two- to three-month-long Amazon delivery on top of the already-insane prices was hardly an option for a teenager or a college student.