Why no 'In Death Ground' Ebook

External Since: Aug 09, 2003 Posts: 20

On Sun, 04 Apr 2004 21:54:51 GMT, Sea Wasp <seawasp.RemoveThis@wizvax.net> wrote:

>I haven't noticed page-shedding in any of my (very large) assortment
>of Baen books. But I'll pass the comment along.

I haven't either with the exception of IDG. Mine was fine during the
first reading but it started to shed during the second, the first
paperback I've had do that Baen or otherwise . I'm a careful reader
and really don't abuse books while I read them so the shedding was a
surprise.

I've looked at IDG at several bookstores and they just don't look
right, gaps between the cover and the book or to much glue in other
spots, pages or printing not quite square. to me they just look a
little suspect and I'm not ready to buy another copy till they look a
little better.

--
Everything that can be counted doesn't necessarily count;
Everything that counts can't necessarily be counted. (Einstein)

External Since: Mar 14, 2004 Posts: 33

"Offbreed" <Offbreed_106 DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> David wrote:
>
  > > "Offbreed" <Offbreed_106 DeleteThis @hotmail.com> wrote in message
  > > news:f-CdnW37Sug1TPDd4p2dnA@scnresearch.com...
>
   > >>Too bad "book on demand" is still so expensive. We could specify paper
   > >>and binding quality for the keepers.
>
  > > Take your book to Staples and copy it on standard size paper, punch holes and place in
  > > standard size notebook. I do this all the time with older books.
>
> I've done that a few times. Enough to want to learn to do my own book
> binding so they take up less space. But I mostly want a home printing
> capibility for all the hard copy tech manuals, which I have even more of.
>
  > > She took her papers and slunk off while I happily resumed copying the book, which was
  > > about the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire.
>
> <G>
Use a scanner!
With PaperPort, which comes bundled with Visioneer scanners, you can scan the pages and
save them to your harddrive. Then print two images to a sheet, which gives you 4 pages per
sheet.
Staples has do-it yourself binding kits that cost under a hundred. It would be a bit of
work, but might be worth it!