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Scams, eBooks, Kindle, Google and the terror unto death

Just a few articles on why eBooks are fattening the wallets of thieves:

Are eBooks The New Content Farms?

eBook Fraud

Fence Your Stolen Content

The Kindle Swindle

Bloggers Weigh In On The Kindle Swindle And New Fraud

till next, Gary

 

 

 

Today's Old Book: Carpentry And Joinery For Amateurs

Let me just say that I really really like this book. So much so that I have three copies, one for each hand. Why do I have three copies? Why do tool collectors collect multiples of the same tool? Because they're there, that's why.

James Lukin (read his autobiography) was a prolific 19th Century author of books on carpentry, joinery, wood turning, metal working and mechanics. His chosen audience was the amateur, a term not taken in an unkind manner as is so often the case today. The amateur was that person who had the leisure time to practice a hobby. Or at least someone who wanted others to believe he or she had that leisure time.

Mechanic's Companion On Sale Now

THE MECHANIC'S COMPANION, by Peter Nicholson is, at long last, ready and willing to be sold for a reasonable $26.95. In trade paperback, at 450 pages and weighing in a just under 1.4 lbs, Mechanic's Companion is 5.5"x8.5"x1", a nearly exact replica of the original.

This, the 1850 edition, has been one of those short projects that morphed into a lengthy project. Getting the 40 engraved plates just right took a bit of doing. It seems Mr. Nicholson used the same plates he engraved for an original 1832 edition all the way up through the 1850 edition.

True, he was not really alive by 1850, but I won't quibble on a minor point such as this. He may well have used the same plates in earlier editions, but I didn't have anything earlier on hand for a direct comparison. Suffice it to say, with a bit of Photoshop work, the plates in the Toolemera reprint retain the details Mr. Nicholson's hands imparted to them.

 Currently, Paypal and Amazon are up and running at the storefront. Shortly, I'll have The Book Depository, Powell's and Shop Woodworking links live also. 'truth is, you can buy the book from any bookseller who uses Books-In-Print, which is to say, most everyone. Just search for the ISBN: 978-0-9831500-0-8 and yer golden.

Till next, Gary

Mechanic's Companion On Sale Now

THE MECHANIC'S COMPANION, by Peter Nicholson is, at long last, ready and willing to be sold for a reasonable $26.95. In trade paperback, at 450 pages and weighing in a just under 1.4 lbs, Mechanic's Companion is 5.5"x8.5"x1", a nearly exact replica of the original.

This, the 1850 edition, has been one of those short projects that morphed into a lengthy project. Getting the 40 engraved plates just right took a bit of doing. It seems Mr. Nicholson used the same plates he engraved for an original 1832 edition all the way up through the 1850 edition.

True, he was not really alive by 1850, but I won't quibble on a minor point such as this. He may well have used the same plates in earlier editions, but I didn't have anything earlier on hand for a direct comparison. Suffice it to say, with a bit of Photoshop work, the plates in the Toolemera reprint retain the details Mr. Nicholson's hands imparted to them.

 Currently, Paypal and Amazon are up and running at the storefront. Shortly, I'll have The Book Depository, Powell's and Shop Woodworking links live also. 'truth is, you can buy the book from any bookseller who uses Books-In-Print, which is to say, most everyone. Just search for the ISBN: 978-0-9831500-0-8 and yer golden.

Till next, Gary