Dor, I like having physical courses. I find they get forgotten and unfinished too often and wind up burning the recordings that I have the physical reminder. That's me
I also love handling physical books. Being in Australia I wind up getting a lot shipped from Amazon that are not available in Australia. Even so I prefer to buy them on my Kindle. I still find activation of the physical book much more enjoyable it's easier to jump to the page I want to activate by opening the book.
I was incidentally demonstrating activation in front of a seminar where I said I might ask this question of the author and then would open the book to a page. Since I was doing this with the book facing the participants and not myself we didn't expect that I would open the page exactly to the one that answers the question. One of the participants pointed it out. Stuff like that is harder to experience with the digital course.
Another reason I like to learn with physical books is it is faster to naturally read printed books. Especially complicated textbooks. (Unfortunately research is backing me with that one. Books on subjects the reader is familiar with or light reading there is no discernible difference in reading speed on electronic readers, which is nice however not true for computer or PC).
The position of the printed text is different on a PC and PC reading was found to be slower than reading traditional books by 25%. That is one reason I recommended one would start with printed books. As you're already slower to start with.
On tablets and ereaders one does have the considered advantage making the text larger. Something printed books miss out on for the challenged readers who find the fine print of text slowing them down.
When you buy the digital course, which is the logical option if considering international shipping and duties some countries add on top as well as the delay in getting the course, Follow the course handling digital reading is explained in the course, go easy on yourself when after working with the ebooks included in the course doesn't seem all that you think it could be. Start grabbing some similar sized (200 or so pages) books on subjects that interest you and repeat the 3rd book exercise or better yet the five day test mentioned in the PhotoReading book.
To set up 2 pages in acrobat reader find preferences (Ctrl K)
Page display can be set to two up there.
Set up your preferences for full screen reading in the preferences as well. When you want to PhotoRead a document if it isn't displayed in two pages I recommend switching to that from the tool bar first. Hitting Ctrl L will bring up full screen (Esc to get out). If you set the time to advance each screen you can sit back and PhotoRead. Otherwise tap the spacebar or page down up key for page turning.
The 17inch screen is fine, when you can see the shapes of the words you'll be able to PhotoRead them fine. Since during PhotoReading you're not using your regular reading vision. For activation take advantage of the fact that you can control the text and make it comfortable for reading.
Alex
