Wanting to dig deeper into the subject, I've been looking at books relating to Flash Photography, and there are an awful lot of them, ranging from not a lot of money, to quite expensive.
Amazon was good place to look, as with many of their books you can "look inside", and also read the reviews of 'end users'.
I often find that when I buy a book on a particular subject, photography, astro-imaging, and the like, that only parts of the book are about a specific area of interest I might have, and the rest I don't particularly need, or its knowledge that I already have.
I noted that from Amazon, you can download a free Kindle Reader for the PC, and that many of the books on offer have a downloadable Kindle version, at significantly less cost than the printed version.
So, I thought I would give it a try, downloaded the Kindle Reader, and a Kindle version of one of the books on flash photography, that was well reviewed.
I found that there was some really useful content in the book, but also a multitude of pictures, and areas of the subject that are not currently of any interest to me (studio work etc).
Now as I much prefer to sit in an armchair and read printed material, than sitting in front of a PC monitor, I copied the sections of the book that were of real interest to me, and pasted them into a Word document.
The Kindle Reader software has an inbuilt facility for copying the content, to paste elsewhere.
Of some 136 pages in the book, I condensed this down to a nine page A4 Word document, containing all the content that was of real interest to me, and printed it out.
I now have exactly what I wanted from the book, in a form that I can sit down and read, without having to flick through lots of pages that I didn't need, and for significantly less money than the printed book.
Of course, I still have the complete book in digital format, should I want to refer to it at a future date.
I should add, and I assume this applies to Kindle versions of other books, the author sets a limit on the amount of content that can be copied, and if you reach this limit, the software will not allow you to copy any more content.
That said, I was able to copy all the content that I needed, without reaching this limit.
However, the limit only applies to 'cut & paste', and if you wanted to, you could copy much more, by using a 'screen grab' application, to copy the page and then paste it into a document as an image.
Dave
Amazon was good place to look, as with many of their books you can "look inside", and also read the reviews of 'end users'.
I often find that when I buy a book on a particular subject, photography, astro-imaging, and the like, that only parts of the book are about a specific area of interest I might have, and the rest I don't particularly need, or its knowledge that I already have.
I noted that from Amazon, you can download a free Kindle Reader for the PC, and that many of the books on offer have a downloadable Kindle version, at significantly less cost than the printed version.
So, I thought I would give it a try, downloaded the Kindle Reader, and a Kindle version of one of the books on flash photography, that was well reviewed.
I found that there was some really useful content in the book, but also a multitude of pictures, and areas of the subject that are not currently of any interest to me (studio work etc).
Now as I much prefer to sit in an armchair and read printed material, than sitting in front of a PC monitor, I copied the sections of the book that were of real interest to me, and pasted them into a Word document.
The Kindle Reader software has an inbuilt facility for copying the content, to paste elsewhere.
Of some 136 pages in the book, I condensed this down to a nine page A4 Word document, containing all the content that was of real interest to me, and printed it out.
I now have exactly what I wanted from the book, in a form that I can sit down and read, without having to flick through lots of pages that I didn't need, and for significantly less money than the printed book.
Of course, I still have the complete book in digital format, should I want to refer to it at a future date.
I should add, and I assume this applies to Kindle versions of other books, the author sets a limit on the amount of content that can be copied, and if you reach this limit, the software will not allow you to copy any more content.
That said, I was able to copy all the content that I needed, without reaching this limit.
However, the limit only applies to 'cut & paste', and if you wanted to, you could copy much more, by using a 'screen grab' application, to copy the page and then paste it into a document as an image.
Dave
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