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While reading the latest Wolfe Tracks E-zine I noticed they are offering several books in PDF format. How do you feel about books on computers?
I enjoy the feel of a bound book in my hand. Good paper and leather or cloth, embossed words on the spine and marbled endpaper. I enjoy setting in a comfy chair with a mug of hot tea and reading a book.
One of the E books offered by Wolfe is Brownells �Firearms Pressure Factors.� I have this book and it is a good book for cold winter evenings. Many formulas and a lot to think about. I have notes in a three ring binder that expand the errata sheet and help me to better understand the math. I enjoy this book, despite its pedestrian binding. I cannot imagine the average person reading and working with this book in an electronic format.
Surfing the Internet, I often find myself just skimming thread titles on Forum Boards and not bothering to open them. A thread title must leap out at me to attract my attention. How many of us will enjoy reading a book on the computer?

Wouldn't be for me. I like to ease back in the recliner with my dog at the foot of the chair, a warm fire in the fireplace, and a hot cup of tea. Let the winter wind howl and the snow fly, it's all good. My wife loves to read and we hardly ever turn on the television.

selsnslim:
I do recommend that one and all take full advantage of the opportunity to buy the CD of Stuart Otteson's "The Bolt Action, Volumes I and II." I agree that the printed books are more convenient to use, but try to find them for sale at a price that a family person can pay. The CD version is far better than nothing. Once a shooter has read the Otteson volumes, he or she will never again look at a bolt action rife in starry-eyed innocence. He or she will have the tools to resist the blandishments of marketeers, if he or she chooses to use those tools. I simply can't recommend the Otteson books too highly!

I could enjoy those two volumes.....even on a computer screen.

The advantage I see of having a book on computer is that they wouldn't go out of print so quickly. There are a lot of books out there that are in demand since they are good reads, but the publishers don't reprint them. PDF's might make it easier for them to be available. Hopefully for cheaper. I would be willing to print them off and throw them in a binder on my reloading bench.


SS

E-Books?! Ugh! I personally am not in favor of that. My job
requires my constant interaction with computers and there is
no love lost there let me tell you. They are cold, impersonal
and don't offer the comforting warmth that a good book that
I can hold in my hands to read has. Besides the eyestrain
associated with computer reading isn't worth the frustration
it causes me.

I do/would download such books/information available onto
my computer though for storage and then I just print them
out to hardcopy on my laser printer. Then I just put them into
a binder and add them to my growing library of gun stuff.

TwentyTwo,

I need Ken Waters Notebook and will order it tonight. I have Volume I so I might as well order the combined set to get volume two. As you point out it is a LOT cheaper than buying a used hard copy.

I have a copy of Dr. Mann's The Bullets Flight but have wanted the limited Wolfe published copy of Harry Pope's copy of this fine book with his margin notes. I called Wolfe this afternoon as they have two versions of The Bullets Flight on CD. The first is a combined Cd with two other books and the other is a stand alone. I asked if the book was the Harry Pope copy or if it was just Dr. Mann's book without the margin notes. They didnt know so I wont order it.

I'll try the Cd book but I am prepaired to not like it. I use various manuals and other documentation on CD's for work and end up printing a lot of pages. As you point out, the price is right and I probably will not be able to get my hands on Vol' II any other way.
I am being drug, kicking and screaming, into the 20th Century. I am not ready to talk about the 21st.

TwentyTwo,

Well I got the Bolt Action books today. They run fine on my small laptop so should work fine on the desk top.
The book is a very good format for being an e-book. The drawings show up very well and the books are easy to read.
The page numbers are off due to the cover and title pages.
Book one for instance the page numbers are about 12 numbers off. Book two the page numbers are about 9 pages off.
This is a small problem, once known it is easy to adjust.
Good price for two very good books.
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