now - Popular Electonics was Re: Manual sources

YEP! Pretty sure all Popular? Electronics? were? online? ? Bill.... Yes? the? 'for? profit'? ?model diminished? ?due? to? online scanned? holdings.? It? also diminished? the value? of? some publications? also as? many people are? OK? with having a? digital? copy and? do not have the urge or need to have a hardcopy on file. ? PAPER is still king here though as it offers us the best? images? ? ?for use in display as we? photograph or? scan the? printed artwork and not? deal? with? compression.? ? There? ?may? even? come? a point? where I? have to? direct? a? thinning? of the? library. Even now,? some? things that? we? have multiple? copies of? or multiple sets of are being? shared out.? ? ? Thinking back on my? young? days and? the love of? publications...? ? Heh!? I can't? tell? you? how many? copies of Popular Electronics, Electronics Illustrated and Electronics? World? and others? I read in? class? with a? text? book? ?in front of? it to make the teacher? thing? I was? really? interested in what they were teaching! ? Neighbors that? were in the engineering and? science? careers were a? steady supply? of? great higher level? publications that many of? them would? trash every? week...? ?and? what? wonderful? reader service cards? all of these publications? could? be? used to bring in? ?on some? days? a 2? foot? stack of? mail ... much to my mother's chagrin who had to sort out? ?the few pieces of? family mail that were in the stack. ? All family? cars ( and a? ?few neighbor cars? too) had? 'stashes'? of? mags? in the? trunk ....? ?"sure? mom? what to stop and? ?go? shopping..." Let? me? get something out of the? trunk....." ? Although? scanned? stuff is? ?useful there is still nothing like? curling up in an? arm chair? ?(or in? this story? a? car seat)? and? reading the? ?paper? issues! ? Ed#? www.smecc.org??(extra? ?spaces included to? ?authenticate message) ? In a message dated 12/13/2018 7:45:35 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk at classiccmp.org writes: ? <snip it all> Thus electronic storage / scanning is probably the best alternative all else considered. Everyone here can hope another like-minded soul will be there to do what needs to be done when opportunity awaits I saved a healthy run of early popular electronics mags from the wilmington, delaware library a few years ago. If I haddn't randomly happenend to have been there... I assume pop electr are all online, but ultimately it's about cost benefit of storage. As far as places like ManualsPlus and other for-profit libraries, many I am sure were killed in part by free digital copies on the web.. i.e. we who archive and post copies for free have our role in what became of the for-profit library business. I remember Jason Scott was very involved in rallying volunteers to save what could be saved at ManualsPlus, a lot was thus saved by Jason. Some of it passed through vcfed.org club I think. Bill