So write/edit the book (someone has to do that in the end) for on-line usage
or a disc and the individual can read on screen, download or print as he
prefers. This could solve all the COSTS portion of a study. I treasure my
books and have collections of everything some writers have written. I'd
mention authors but do not want to start a never ending thread of comments. I
now date the front page with the time of the re-read and allow three years to
elapse in most cases, then read the entire collection in order. So throw out
that junk in the garage and put in books, they will never argue, and will
always give the same opinion no mater how much coffee or beer you spill on
them, and they will help with the insulation in the garage so you can work
longer in the winter. In the worst cases you can use them to cook up the brats
and then have space for a new choice.
Never be beaten by equipment
> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:50:15 -0700
> From: mdporter@dfn.com
> To: TR3driver@ca.rr.com
> CC: fot@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] Books
>
> On 1/28/2013 10:41 PM, Randall wrote:
> >> Why do it on dead trees?
> > I can't tell you how much computer media I have from just 20 or 30 years
ago
> > that is totally unreadable today. Zip drives, cartridge tape, 8"
floppies,
> > 5.25" floppies, hell even 3.5" floppies are a thing of the past. Some of
my
> > DVD backups from just a few years ago are no longer readable either.
> >
> > But I can still read books printed 40, 50 even 90 years ago. (Pretty
sure
> > my 1872 book on chemical technology is a reprint, so I won't count that
:)
> >
> >
>
> Amen to that. I still have my old chemistry textbook that is still a
> pretty good reference, after more than forty years. I've lost books
> I've written on the computer (and, yeah, shame on me for not doing
> regular backups), but I've managed to hold on to the hard print books
> I've collected over the years (apart from the ones stored in a guy's
> barn when the roof blew off and the rain and snow turned them into
> blocks of paper). But, then, I'm just an English major who likes the
> look and feel of a real book in my hands. There's something solid and
> reliable about a book one can pick up and hold in one's hands.
>
> Dead trees? I would guess that, in aggregate, copiers today use much
> more paper for much less worthy purposes than do books. Hell, this is a
> group that goes bug nuts at the suggestion to enable rules to convert to
> fuel injection, or renewable fuels, but electronic books are preferable?
>
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
>
>
> Michael Porter
> Roswell, NM
>
>
> Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking
distance....
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