[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 95, Issue 50 - Electronic manuals

[Mike]

It's nice to have both. The electronic one gives you a great ability to 
find things, it's easily updated, and takes up no space on the bookshelf 
or coffee table. And it's harder to misplace. It's dirt cheap compared 
to paper.

The paper one is good so I don't have to either build on my operating 
desk, or carry a computer to the workbench, and it's handier for 
checking off steps, and reading in my recliner.

73, Mike NF4L

On 3/28/12 9:30 PM, Scott wrote:
> Personally, I don't really care how many trees are used up.  They grow
> back.  I want a paper copy of the manual.  Then I can look up whatever I
> want without a computer.
>
> Scott
> KF5MHS
>
> On 3/28/2012 1:04 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
>> While electronic manuals might save trees and PDF's are really great for
>> searching for information, that won't speed up the delivery of manuals for
>> new products or updates to manuals significantly.
>>
>> 99.9% of the time (and cost) required to create a new document is in the
>> writing, illustrating, validating and editing. That doesn't change.
>>
>> Toward Dale's question, I have a binder for my K2 that I built in 2000 that
>> has copies of all the many mods and changes that have been made to it over
>> the years. My K2 has never had a failure, but if it did there'd be repair
>> log in that binder too.  I have considered doing that electronically,
>> perhaps with a memory stick, but the one advantage of paper is that it does
>> not require any technology to read it.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Ron AC7AC
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> How about you save the current online manuals and other info to a $4 USB
>> Memory stick and put it in the box?  Maybe Elecraft could even supply a
>> "Elecraft" branded USB Memory Stick with the latest stuff on it.  Then you
>> would have a record that was consistent with when you bought your radio.
>> Elecraft could even save the Calibration data to that memory stick as well.
>> Personally I'd rather have that than the printed manual, and I suspect it
>> would cost far less given printing and shipping costs.
>>
>> Another possibility would be if Elecraft kept archival copies of all manuals
>> online.
>>
>> Personally I can live without printed manuals -- I like the PDFs, but I do
>> see Dale's point and the cheap USB Flash Drive seems like a cheap way.
>>
>> 73, Bob, B4SON
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Dale Putnam<daleputnam at hotmail.com>   wrote:
>>
>>> The one issue that I see with on line manuals ... any ideas?
>>>
>>> --...   ...--
>>> Dale - WC7S in Wy
>>>
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