[sdiy] Electronotes Free

[David G Dixon]

I gotta say, I'm very amused by this discussion so far.  Bernie Hutchins
strikes me as the sort of fellow who is not in the habit of seeking out
advice on how to run his affairs from folks on the internet.  He's obviously
doing this thing exactly the way he wants to do it, and I respect that.
Plus, I like hardcopies, personally.
 
I have had three boxes of Electronotes sitting in my garage for a couple of
years, and never made the time to delve into them until just a few weeks
ago.  I must say that I regret not doing it sooner.  I take long walks in
the evening for exercise, and I've started to take various issues of
Electronotes along to read so the walking isn't such a waste of time.  The
other people on the trail must think I'm a total goof, but who cares?
 
I took the Musical Engineer's Handbook with me on a recent trip to Toronto,
and read it voraciously on both plane trips and in my AirBnB room.  What a
lovely way to fill the time!  I already knew a lot of the stuff contained
therein, of course, but a lot of it was very rusty and it was great to
refresh the ol' memory banks.  I learned quite a few new things as well, and
even the stuff I wasn't all that interested in really made me think about
things and some new ideas started to flow.
 
However, it is a relative pain in the ass to carry several hundred pages of
paper across the country -- not only is it heavy, but I'm worried about
losing or damaging pages.  I am definitely going to three-hole-punch and
bind the thing when I get the chance, and I have half a mind to run it
through a scanner and make PDFs of each section.  Of course, these would
just be for my own use.  However, I don't see that it would take more than
an hour or so to do the whole MEH on a reasonably capable automatic-loading
scanner/copier such as the ones in my department at the university.  I
wonder if Bernie has any objection to that?  Indeed, I can't see that it
would take more than a couple days of dedicated effort to scan all three
boxes worth of stuff.
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