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Printed Books versus CD or Online Editions - Kaitemae


Posted: Jun 01, 2011

I have been looking for several books and noticed that Stedman's site has a lot of their reference books in the form of CD and that there is also a Stedman's online site.  Do any of you have any opinions that you can offer as to the best investment?

There's only about a $5 difference in price each regardless.

ThanksSmile

Personally, I like hard copy reference books - sm

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because I can write things down in them, but then again, I am old school--25+ years, before the age of the internet, etc. I use a lot of on-line sites, but I do have my copies of Stedman's, most of them old, but I usually spring for a new book once every so often to replace the older ones.

Same as above poster - Anon

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I also started transcribing before the Internet and I prefer the books, although I have some CDs also, but the books are my first choice.

I also like to add words to my books and I also like to hi-lite things in my books.


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