Not the whole thing, but big chunks of Morgan Jones' Valve Amplifiers is on Google Books.
http://books.google.com/books?id=b4Thv_rINKYC
http://books.google.com/books?id=b4Thv_rINKYC
+1 for the copyright protection of the works' creator. Google is overstepping the mark - their self-serving idealism is flying in the face of individual rights.
too easily. i believe i used wood glue to stick them back together. then I was really careful. not sure what a better choice of glue would have been
Please don't share the e-books you've purchased with others, it is actually a violation of copyright law. (You can probably give it to someone else, but you can't legally retain a copy for your own use) You're effectively depriving the author of deserved income for his work, and personally I think MJ has really earned that money. Support him by buying his books!
I'm sure that the book has been outlined and mostly written already. He contacted me about possibly mentioning PowerDrive a while ago.
Yeah, I looked through my email and his "it won't be soon" statement was made early last year. OK, I guess that "not soon" has expired!
Where do you think the idea for my industrial amp came from?
Mine is now a collection of loose pages and clumps of pages in a box. I think that they are still in order. "Building Valve Amplifiers" is still intact though.
Is it possibly environment related (?) as I have the 1st and 3rd Edition of "Valve Amplifiers" and the 1st Edition of "Building Valve Amplifiers." Not a page has fallen out of any of these, and I've had the 1st edition for a very long time, and the others since they came out.
I am careful with my books so it is possible that the way I handle them plays a role, or I just don't refer to them as much as I should.
Is it possibly environment related (?) as I have the 1st and 3rd Edition of "Valve Amplifiers" and the 1st Edition of "Building Valve Amplifiers." Not a page has fallen out of any of these, and I've had the 1st edition for a very long time, and the others since they came out.
I am careful with my books so it is possible that the way I handle them plays a role, or I just don't refer to them as much as I should.
When i picked up my copies, I scoured them for information since I was a total toob noob at the time (still am, honestly), and I know I put them through their paces. Up here in Northern Nevada, the weather fluxes from one extreme to the other, so it may be environment related. it's also rather dry. If it sat in the warehouse for any length of time before I got it, that probably didn't help.
i will say i considered breaking them apart further, into individual chapters
Possible. I live in south Florida where the humidity ranges from 99% to 100%, although the books have spent their entire lives in this room which is always air conditioned often with 2 AC units.
I have a RC-30 (tube manual) that is a reprint purchased at about the same time as MJ. It sees far more use and is still intact. However my RC-25 which I purchased new in 1966 at the Lafayette radio electronics store for $1.25! It is in about the same condition as MJ. My RC-22 is almost all single loose pages.
Where would those of us without engineering degrees be without those books? We would have to rely totally on RDH4 or,LOL!, "Vacuum tube amplifiers" by Valley and Wallman.(although it is an ambition of mine to be able to get through this some day) I think very few amplifiers would actually get built. Buy the books and if they fall apart buy another copy.Think how we overstock in tubes and the compulsive capacitor buying disease. I am thrilled to hear that a 4th edition is expected.
Google has nothing to do with it. The books are uploaded by the publisher, in agreement with the copyright holder.
(The middle section of my copy fell apart the first time I read it. Poor quality binding, Newnes!)
They fall apart easily. My copy came apart about 3 weeks after I received it from Amazon. I glued mine back together twice. It's in pieces again.
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