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Just in case anyone is wondering what a Nelson's Caddis is, here are two examples:
http://www.danica.com/flytier/jnicho...ons_caddis.htm
http://home.centurytel.net/gigharbor...nelcaddis.html
FAOL had one too but the photo was in someones photobucket and had been removed.
Larry ---sagefisher---
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I hate taking my laptop into the bathroom. I'll leave it at that.
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I get several web based fly fishing magazines and I enjoy reading them. The video segments are pretty cool. I like paper magazines, too, but eventually they will go away. From an environmental point of view, it is kind of silly to waste the paper and all of the energy that it takes to produce and distribute paper magazines.
I will miss having paper magazines to read in the throne room when the paper magazines are no longer available.
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Do these web based magazines have a search function, like FAOL does, so you could rather easily find topics of interest from past issues?
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I have a subscription to the digital edition of Bird Watchers Digest. It's great! They have embedded videos and pictures links you can't get with the paper forum. Also you can do research by simply highlighing words and phrases and bring up several search options. Digital is the future and a better way to go. By the time my kids are in high school they will be required to have a digital reader. Paper is on the way out.
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I havent bought any digital magazines yet, but all the books I have bought for the past 18 months or so have been in Kindle (iPhone/iPad app) format as well as downloading books from the library.
I dont think I would like magazines on the phone, but i think they would be quite enjoyable on the iPad. I did download a sample of Fly Tyer and will check it out in the near future. Also downloaded a sample of one of Charlie Craven's books. if the fly tying books work out I may pick up a couple digital versions of the hardcopy books I have.
One benefit of the digital versions is that you can take 100's of pounds of books/magazines with you when you are away from home.
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I think digital is the work of the devil and should be avoided at all costs...probably because I'm in journal and magazine printing. ;)
Really, they are whats coming, like it or not. Circulation is declining and when we reach the tipping point, that is, when the younger generations become the main demographic in conjunction with the rising cost of producing lower quantities of paper product, hard copy circulation will crash. It will simply cost too much. I think it will be sooner than we think.
Anyone hiring?
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Then again, you just can't take your old digital copies up to the cabin for reading material during deer camp. And a Kindle is useless for anything but reading in the outhouse.
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I like to read magazines in bed before going to sleep. So I prefer to not have to have a laptop at my bed side. Especially since I am on a computer so much already.
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