Can't underline or write in the margins with CDs either. Of course I don't write in borrowed books from the library but lately I've been buying a lot of books of my own on favorite subjects. Maureen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara de Mare" <barbarademare@yahoo.com> To: <nywestch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [NYWESTCH] CD search hint > Maureen, > > You have expressed my feelings on CDs perfectly. Plus you can't mark CD > pages with stickies. > > Barbara > > quillpen1 <quillpen1@optonline.net> wrote: > Thanks, Carol. > > My problem with CDs instead of books is that Cds are so cumbersome. If I > want to find someone/something in a book I go to the Index then to the pp > indicated by just turning pages. With a CD it becomes a major production > just to FIND the page and then try to access who/what I want on it. > .....and > I find that working on a computer for long hours gives me a lot of > eyestrain > which doesn't happen with books no matter how far into the night I read. > Books don't give me a sore shoulder and aching back either. I just curl up > with one or several wherever it's comfortable.LOL. > > Cds are not so heavy though!! LOL. > > Maureen > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 10:16 AM > Subject: [NYWESTCH] CD search hint > > >> >> Remember that when you are looking at a scanned book, or other file, you >> can press "Control F" This will bring up a search box. Type in Family >> name >> or other word you are looking for & it will search for and give you a >> list >> of pages where this word appears, then just click on the page you want to >> look at. System is not perfect and can miss things but give you look at >> what the book contains. >> >> Thanks, >> Carol L. Heap >> >> "You live as long as you are remembered" >> *************************************** >> Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ >> *************************************** >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > Barbara L. de Mare, Esq. > Historian, genealogist and attorney > 155 Polifly Road > Hackensack, New Jersey 07601 > (201) 567-9440 office > BarbaradeMare@yahoo.com (home) > http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/ > *************************************** > Have you checked out the Westchester County GenWeb site yet? > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywestch/ > *************************************** > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYWESTCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message