7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
3:02 a.m.
On 06/06/2013, at 11:10 PM, Holger Veit <holger.veit at iais.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
Am 05.06.2013 22:25, schrieb Fred Cisin:
The library in the University I used to work at had a binding department which I used to
convert paperbacks to hardcovers. The most memorable is my copy of Misner, Thorn and
Wheeler which creates its own Gravitational anomaly (this is very much an in joke -
it's a very heavy book :-). Very much off topic, this book is still a great read and I
browse it from time to time, but it's very much out of date in many sections..
Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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On Wed, 5 Jun 2013, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Public libraries once in a while re-bind paperbacks into hardcovers in order to
have the book survive a longer time. And, as already mentioned, they often discard them
after some time because "that book is old, and hasn't been loaned out for quite
some time". Then you have good chances to acquire hardcover copies of CS books for
very cheap, and it also happens that this is not the "Word 98 for beginners"
crap. I got Knuth's trilogy this way. I'd be willing to pay even more than that for
a K&R hardcover.
They do exist!