I prefer the hard copy manuals myself. I’ve had too many bad scans over the years to trust that as the only source of info. Usually you only find out it’s a bad scan right in the middle of a problem solving session.
We have mauritron here who are the equivalent and some of their scans are just the worst.
yeah
I just think better on paper...I guess I am a product of a bygone age...
me, too. every time i get a PDF of a book i am actually reading, i end up buying a hard copy. i write in them, i highlight, i use stickies and i've never figured out a good way to do that with an e-book; the tools availabe generally suck. i pretty much have given up the notion that buying artek scans is anything other than a prelude to going to kinkos and making proper manuals with big schematics. and yes, i have a big collection of databooks even though i also have data sheet scans for most of the parts in my inventory.
i also prefer writing to typing. almost all of my figuring is on paper, with a fine point pen. a product of another age, i guess.
i do have an ebook reader and i do use it to read non-technical stuff because it is really handy to have something with two hundred books on it when one is spending hours or days in transit.