I have seen musicians, pianists and chamber ensembles, playing from tablets
with the score displayed.  Page turns, at least for pianists, are effected
by means of a foot pedal connected like a mouse to the tablet.  In fact, it
seems to reduce the need for a page turner for complex keyboard works such
as, say, a score for a Bach fugue, or the organ symphonies of Widor.

On the other hand, for pages that are larger than a tablet scree can
display, or instructions that are too far from a power supply, and possibly
other factors, a print copy would still be the ideal form to work from.

Ken Grabach
Maps Librarian
BEST Library, 219D
Miami University Libraries
Oxford, OH  45056  USA

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On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Piselli, Kathy <
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> Try repairing or building something with your phone or tablet “held open”
> to the page you need and see how far you get. (Try it when cooking, for
> that matter – I don’t know anyone who does not work from some form of hard
> copy)
>
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> Kathy Piselli
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> *From:* Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On
> Behalf Of *Wagner, Leslie A
> *Sent:* Friday, July 01, 2016 9:58 AM
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> *Subject:* Re: The old ways
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> I must add to this thread that I showed the online downloadable files to
> my husband (a former Boy Scout). His response: “What good is that? You have
> to print out 300 plus pages to read it.” Okay. He’s very old school. He
> retires (again) at the end of July. I, too, like the hard copy form – it’s
> so much easier (for us old fogies) to flip through and quickly explore the
> paper version.
>
>
>
> I’m also going to show these books to our FabLab director who is both an
> artist and a tech wizard. He’s been very keen on having how-to
> instructional materials on the old ways…
>
>
>
> Thank you, Michael, for bringing these items to our attention!
>
>
>
> Leslie Wagner
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> Associate Archivist
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> University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
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> *From:* Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. [mailto:[log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]>] *On Behalf Of *Michael Holt
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2016 1:02 PM
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> *Subject:* Re: The old ways
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> It looks like I don't need to keep these original books, and I don't need
> to scan anything.  Anyone who wishes to have the pages can get them from
> the internet.  A little bit of exploring brought these links to light:
>
> The Boy Mechanic: Book 1, 700 things  16,343k (Google Books)
> https://archive.org/details/boymechanicthin00cogoog
>
> The Boy Mechanic: Book 1, 700 things  17,760K (Gutenberg Project)
> https://archive.org/details/theboymechanicvo12655gut
>
> (I'd go with the Google Books version of Book 1. Gutenberg Project
> re-typesets the whole thing and pagination is lost.)
>
> The Boy Mechanic: Book 2, 1000 things  32,308K
> https://archive.org/details/boymechanicbook200chic2
>
> The Boy Mechanic: Book 3, 800 things  33,083K
> https://archive.org/details/boymechanic03popu
>
> What I had in mind in the beginning was a small book with a title
> something like *The Boy Mechanic Maps the Neighborhood. * Included in it
> would not only the cartography articles but also the articles about making
> the tools and whatever can be found about tricks with math (I found at
> least one). Someone else would have to do it, though, because I lack the
> software to take the PDFs apart and re-assemble the articles into a single
> document.  In an ideal world, the whole thing might be tested by a school,
> and the testing managed by someone who's on this list.  Does anyone know of
> a middle-school administrator who'd like to work with this idea?
>
>
> Michael Holt
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