Using 2 logical pages per physical side is actually my aesthetic desire as opposed to only a cost savings. the numbers provided here use retail ricing for toner and paper): To print the 353 page Exalted book using 2 logical pages per side of paper, and both sides of the paper it would cost $1.74 to print the Exalted Core book including retail priced toner and paper. Even if they do, someone is going to take up the slack, because there is just too much money there.Ĭlick to expand.Yes, that is probably quite true, assuming that you want to add in the cost of the pdf (excluding the case of the Exalted Core which you got for free).įor example (excluding optimizations of consumable prices that I can get given the nature of my work, i.e. It is unlikely that either Adobe or Microsoft are going to disappear anytime soon. However, being able to continue to read the files and use the SW that you already have is something you need to plan for, or at least consider, when you are changing to another environment. It is not that hard to drop thousands of dollars on RPG books over time.
It could be cost effective, depending on how many books you buy. Alternately, dedicate a whole computer to just being able to read your RPG books. Buy a completely separate drive that you can boot from when you want to view the pdf files. Given that 120GB 7200RPM drives are under $100 (best I've seen was ($25.99 for new 160GB WD1600JB(retail) drives but that was in March and I have not looked recently), I don't see much of a problem. The machine that I am currently typing on can boot into any of w2k, win98, or Linux (multiple kernel versions).