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It's heeeeeere!- Valve Amplifiers 4th Edition

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#161
Will odd pages (or torn parts thereof) keep popping up around the world? In order to start a genuine audio club, you will need a piece of the 4th edition. Then some clever clogs will do some sums and work out that the scraps add up to more than one book!

PS how long before a Chinese copy appears? It will have a magnificent cover, but some of the pages will be missing or smudged. The ink will be toxic, and it will be so heavy that you could break a toe if you dropped it, but at least it will be much cheaper than the real thing.
 
#162
Best way to keep it from getting the China clone treatment would be to print it in encrypted form on ancient papyrus scrolls and hide them in some ancient dry cave. Then actual buyers would get a cryptic map to the cave and the decrypt codes for an adventure vacation. A few dragons, large rolling stones, etc could guard the cave entrance.

Speaking of UFOs, has anyone ever seen book 6 (volume 3) of the Philips' Technical Library on Electronic Valves?
"Application of the Electronic Valve in Radio Receivers and Amplifiers" Vol 3, by B. G. Dammers, J. Haantjes, J. Otte and H van Suchtelen.

I've got copies of volumes 1 and 2, but interlibrary requests for volume 3 or book 6 come up blank. No one has it. Does it exist?
 
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Best way to keep it from getting the China clone treatment would be to print it in encrypted form on ancient papyrus scrolls and hide them in some ancient dry cave.
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Just remember not to store them in clay pots. I couldn't help but think of the dead sea scrolls, which (if memory serves) were discovered by a man chunking a rock into a mouth of a cave - and hearing the crash of breaking crockery immediately afterward. Of course the real damage came later in the 1950's, when a bunch of chain-smoking scholars got the bright idea to piece them together with - of all things - cellophane tape!

No, the 4th edition should be enshrined in something far more substantial. A nuclear waste storage cask springs to mind...
 
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Triodethom said:
"Application of the Electronic Valve in Radio Receivers and Amplifiers" Vol 3, by B. G. Dammers, J. Haantjes, J. Otte and H van Suchtelen.is on abebooks.com but not in english .
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Really? Searching on abebooks doesn't return any hits.
Do you have a link?

Edit: found it. Its available in Dutch, French, German. You're too picky ;-)

jan
 
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"Application of the Electronic Valve in Radio Receivers and Amplifiers" Vol 3, by B. G. Dammers, J. Haantjes, J. Otte and H van Suchtelen is available for $29.73 in French - $67.57 in German in similarly good shape. Too bad I can't handle technical French. I suppose I'm just too picky as well.

Still better than unobtanium.
 
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smoking-amp said:
I assume none of these PC or Kindle or whatever readers will NOT let one print out a copy?
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Kindle will not allow you to print out a copy whether on a Kindle device or the Kindle software for PC. Note however that screen captures can be easily be made with the snip it tool in win 7 and these can be printed if you need specific references.
I gave up on the book and bought the Kindle version - truthfully I'd like to have the book but in the meantime this will do. I suspect it would be a better experience on a real Kindle, but it is OK. (My wife has a Kindle Fire which she had no intention of using for reading books, but has been drawn in now reading about 20% of her books on the Kindle, and she likes it.)
 
#176
Anyone else getting spam from Elsevier trying to sell VERY EXPENSIVE scientific books. I have been getting one every week or so. The one I just deleted had to do with nuclear materials and was on sale 20% off such a deal:

Print List Price*:
2,750.00 USD | 1,965.00 GBP | 1,670.00 EUR | 3,251.95 AUD

How about just sending me the book I actually want and am willing to pay for.
 
#179
I hope Morgan will consider Dover Books someday for reprints. They have real nice sewn in pages at very low cost, but good quality. Even scientific books go for around $20. And I wish Dover would pick up on the long list of out of print tube technology books. They seem to have weak coverage of old engineering.

UhOh, I just looked at a recent Dover book I got last week to replace a 15 year old well worn copy, and the older version has got clumped, sewn pages and the newer one has all the pages the same. I have a bad feeling they have succumbed to the cheap glued paperback too. Maybe none of the Chinese or Indian printing places know how to do quality book printing.

World Scientific appears to still be making sewn in page books. Another low cost publisher.
 
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I don’t know if its sale of high-priced scientific books is related, but there are about 11,000 academics signed on to a boycott of the publisher
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My mother in law fought Melanoma for 4 years. During that time I made many trips to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center with her. I had several discussions with the researchers that were experimenting on her. I had expressed the desire to read about some of the research. Most of is was published by Elsivier. You or I can't read a lot of this stuff at any price. The older stuff can be downloaded for exhorbitant prices, like $200 for a 5 page PDF. I explained that I had access, and all I needed was the publication numbers. My brother is a well published medical researcher who works for a major university. It turns out that several of the UPMC people knew him so they allowed me to peek into their world, but not discuss it. Let's just say that a lot of research that could save lives is kept secret, and research that kept my mother in laws cancer from killing her was stopped, because there was no aconomic incentive to fund it any further.

How, and why Elsevier is targeting my Tubelab email address, I will never know. I only use it for Tubelab related stuff, and my attempts to actually buy Morgan's book used a different rmail address. The titles they are pushing are widely varied across several unrelated fields from material sciences to environmental control. Nothing related to electronics or medicine.
 
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