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The access to and ability to store the books is frankly astounding. Tiny little 10inch display that I can carry almost all the time practically has all the books, and supplementary materials! Nuts.
I haven't yet figured out how to replicate having many books open at the same time with this digital approach. Acquiring 5 tablets sounds wrong.
@codingquark Yeah, sometimes I have to have my laptop, tablet, and phone all open simultaneously.
@narain I too end up doing this. I have two laptops, one external monitor and a tablet. But it all becomes unwieldy for many reasons. For example different keyboard/mouse for each system, requiring more space than necessary on the desk etc.
@codingquark A pocket projector could do the trick, but I cannot think of a way to display five books simultaneously.
@3jman that's neat idea, I didn't think of it. I'll give it a try and see if it can be useful for reading. On a second thought, having a display sounds better...
@codingquark I was thinking of something more portable, that you could for example set up inside a coffee shop, granted that it would be socially acceptable.
@3jman @codingquark a mini projector might not be “socially acceptable”, but if you’re considerate in how you use it, it’s also unlikely to be a problem. You might get some weird looks from the normies
@calcifer @codingquark Yes but that would still require some way to display five different pdfs, ideally with scrolling control, in a tablet.
@codingquark I put the books on GoodNotes and open them in tabs, it’s the closest thing I’ve found
@codingquark This was exactly the approach they used in Star Trek.
@neal I mean, having n+1 displays is never bad? 
(for any positive integer n, for those math nerds around)
@codingquark Interface matters. At a certain point it takes so long to move the mouse from one end of the virtual display space to the other that completely separate systems with their own inputs and outputs works a lot better. It looks like SimulaVR might have a good solution to that with giving each window its own pointer, but I suspect the quality of that will depend a lot on how fast focus lock/unlock can be performed.
@neal I really wish VR stuff works out on these lines at least. On interface, many times I don't want keyboard/mouse around because I don't need them and if something touches it by mistake universe crumbles.