In message <428261D0.5050207 at atarimuseum.com>
"Curt @ Atari Museum" <curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
Anyone who may be interested in a nice collection, at
first I thought
the price steep, but when you count that its 30 books, thats not as bad
a deal as it sounds, especially if any of those books may be hard to
find, not my auction btw:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3522&item=51…
Gah. Full of multiple copies. I don't obsess over having a first-run copy of
a book - I'd rather have the revised 233rd edition with all the bugfixes.
$400 is pretty steep anyway. FWICT there's not many unique titles in there.
I'd be surprised if anyone actually paid the starting bid.
Then again, I've found a lot of mis-listed stuff on ebay that I got fairly
cheap - my copy of "PET and the IEEE488 Bus" for instance. I also got a copy
of "Electronic Prototype Construction" (the book that covers CuCl etching
chemistry) via Amazon - shame it arrived in pretty bad shape, despite being
listed as a "near mint ex-library copy". Peeling cover print is not "near
mint" IMO, but at least all the pages were present.
Also got a copy of the "CRT Controller Cookbook" by Gerry Kane for ?2 at a
computer show - the one book I never managed to get through Amazon or any of
the local rare book "specialists".
Ideally I'd like to get a few of the books in my collection scanned for
preservation reasons. Problem is, I don't have a scanner that can scan books
without bending the spine 180 degrees (or attempting to). IIRC Microtek make
a proper edge-to-edge book scanner, but I can't see the point in spending
?200+ on something that'll get used maybe five or six times and then get
shoved in a cupboard :-/
Later.
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