History, Needlework & the Digital Age

re: History, Needlework & the Digital Age

weaversouth — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:14:44 GMT

Well, i happen to like digital editions a LOT. I can banish all those piles of printed matter to the attic. (who knows if we will always have power etc....things happen!) If you are picky about how you read, you can always print the pages out! I sympathize, btw, with wanting to hold something in your hand that you can scribble notes on, but, as I said, you can always print something out. When I have a "traveling" project, this is what I do. When I'm finished, I can toss the print-out, since I can always print it out again.

Thanks for doing this...definitely going to add that CD to my collection of digitized "Handwovens"

re: History, Needlework & the Digital Age

Ruth@7 — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:38:13 GMT

I also don't like digital versions of magazines and books, for the most part. And I see no reason to *repurchase* something I already own (I been a _Piecework_ subscriber pretty much from the beginning).

And the "special Interweave magazines that are only digitally available are really comparatively expensive (and it isn't clear that my older version Mac can even even download them).

re: History, Needlework & the Digital Age

Marjorie@5 — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:14:43 GMT

While I love Piecework (a subscriber from issue 1) and sorely lament the issues I've lost to flooding, I do not enjoy ditigal books at all and will not purchase them. I do not like reading on line or working from patterns on a screen.

With a paper magazine or book, I can pretty much look at two pages at once--like with the instructions on the lace ribbons in the newest issue.