[sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes

[David Moylan]

I'd gladly pay for a digital copy Electronotes again (already own a 
paper copy).  My only complaint about Electronotes is the amount of 
physical space it takes up :)

On 06/26/2017 12:06 AM, Mike HEQX wrote:
> OCR is a pain, but scanning to PDF would be a worthwhile venture IMHO. 
> It's easy enough with a disassembled paper volume.
> 
> $50.00 for all that knowledge, totally worth it.
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/25/2017 10:18 AM, Pete Hartman wrote:
>> Perhaps a more do-able suggestion would be to have someone OCR the 
>> engineer's handbook to sell this way.
>>
>> I think the mass of the other information is worth more than $50.  And 
>> to be honest, I haven't been able to afford $373 in one lump either, 
>> that's why it's awesome that Bernie is willing to sell in pieces.  I 
>> started with the core stuff, added the rest of issues 1 -12 that 
>> weren't in the core, and eventually will buy the rest of the paper 
>> archives (soon, as I implied earlier, I have projects ongoing now that 
>> will easily fund that).
>>
>> But the engineer's handbook on its own would be a good choice, as it 
>> has a complete set of circuits and stands more or less on its own.  
>> And it's about the size of a book I'd pay $50 for.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net 
>> <mailto:tom at electricdruid.net>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On 25 Jun 2017, at 14:28, Michael Zacherl <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info
>>     <mailto:sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info>> wrote:
>>
>>     >
>>     > On 25.Jun 2017, at 15:18 , Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl
>>     <mailto:ben at stuyts.nl>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> Although I already own the complete set of Electronotes
>>     (thanks, Bernie!), I'd love to have an Ebook version too. It would
>>     make searching so much easier.
>>     >
>>     > wouldn’t that involve lots of OCR-ing of the old issues?
>>
>>     It certainly would. A lot. Scanning them all would be a big job,
>>     but OCR'ing them all too would be a major task.
>>
>>     Until we get robots and AI that can do this sort of stuff for us,
>>     there's a lot of information that's just going to stay on paper.
>>     But I don't believe that point is that far away.
>>
>>     Tom
>>
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