[Swlug] Books

[Neil Carter]

Groan, there was a time when I would have suggested a trip to Hay on Wye, but the bookshops have gone the same way as books, sadly. Some bookshops remain, but they are few, and their shelves are similarly sparse, especially in technological subjects.

Such a shame. And not entirely clear why so many closed; I gather book sales are not that bad 😕

Neil
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Thanks,Alan. I feared that would be the answer. Everything going PDF, online and eBook. This is one of the things I'm really trying to get away from. I don't want to have to be always connected to the internet for every facet of life. Having said that, I checked on some of the transistors in my collection and they were largely designed in the 60s. I bought a copy of The Transistor and Diode Data Book for Design Engineers by Texas Instruments. I suppose that if that proves insufficient I should maybe go ahead with printing spec sheets for all the stuff I have and putting it in my portable hanging file box or get myself some kind of eink ereader to read the PDFs.

Rhys Sage

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