[Milsurplus] History of radios

[Todd Bigelow - PS]

Kargokult@aol.com wrote:

> <snip>
> Well, disagreement of opinion. The web, and online publishing, is evolving.
> I now own 1000s of books- i am a hard sell to buy any more, and usually
> want to get rid of it when done reading.
> What about CD publishing? You bring the price down to $10-20, it's
> easy to store, editions can be revised easily by the author, and the
> author doesn't have to scour the nation for a specialist press willing
> to take a (subisidized) gamble on   the book.
> Hue

Why not both? Certainly a CD is handier, more transportable and easier to store,
but it's rather difficult to read in bed(about the only time I get to relax and
read). The bulk of my books are still packed up from several years ago, a major
annoyance when it comes time to locate a specific piece of information. Still, I
wouldn't trade them for anything in the world, nor would I want to replace them
with CDs only - merely supplement what I have in text, or cannot locate.
Afterall,  floppys have changed in format drastically over the last decade or so,
CDs have evolved into different forms as well. People once thought that vinyl LPs
would be around forever too, but locating specific titles can make some 'rare'
books look plentiful. Books seem to stay around, even as everything else changes.

What is convenient and sensible to one will be an annoyance to another. With
today's evolving technologies and changing lifestyles(the more time we save, the
less time we have), I'd buy both.

de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ