Dînadan:
Sparked by a comment in the AoS positives thread, I thought I’d start this one. Do you prefer hard copies or digital file for your rules?
BeeZharr:
I have the 40k rulebook and the Mech Codexes as enhanced. Individually great, but when you need to flick between them it’s just a nightmare. If they made an app which added them together into one document which you can search, they’d be perfect. Now, I’m going back to paper…
cornixt:
I like paper copies, but if I can print from a pdf then I control the size and layout - keeping out the fluff and miscellaneous crap that fills out an officially printed army book, especially the giant hardback ones.
Dînadan:
I prefer hard copies - far easier to navigate I find and there’s something about the feel of a physical book that digital copies lack.
Fuggit Khan:
I prefer hard copies - far easier to navigate I find and there's something about the feel of a physical book that digital copies lack.I'm the same way...admittedly I'm old fashioned.
Dînadan
But I also remember the one time my opponent's cellphone battery died mid game and he lost his army book rules list.
Petterwass:
Hard copy. I find it easier to leaf trough it in search of rules and easier to show your opponent the rules too than on a tiny screen,
Malorndk:
I need both actually, when I’m playing the game I want to use the real deal and not be navigating a slow phone or tablet.
When I’m thinking abot Warhammer, creating list, defining comboes an that kind of stuff, I want pdfs of EVERYTHING in my folder on my desktop. I play Dark Elfs (Now Host of the Eternity King) as well, so without digital pdfs, I would have to sit with 9 books in hardback, which is way to slow and annoying (Dark Elfs, High Elfs, Wood Elfs, Khaine book 2, Archaon book 2, Rulebook, Nagash book 2, Vamire Counts & Tombkings).
TheHoodedMan:
Both is the optimum.
Ideally the pdfs use hyperlinks and one can easily hop to the appropriate passage.
But I like books and it is a much better Feeling and much more relaxed than using a tablet.
Personally I think phones are not good for army lists and so on, even relatively large screens are too small.
Fuggit mentionend already the energy problem.
Horace:
I definitely prefer hard copies.
It one of the reasons I am sticking with 8th edition at the moment. For 8th I have beautiful copies of all the rules & army books. If I opted for 9th age I would have to have paper printouts. Sadly all my 4th/5th books went up in a fire
furrie:
I prefer hard copies, I find it easier to look things up