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Post by ambluco on Jun 12, 2016 16:14:44 GMT -8
I laugh with you Paul. There are so many of the books I have that never made it to digital. I have one book that only a handful of them were printed. They are the only book ever done for this road. I come across books all the time that are fantastic resources and via old magazines and buy a copy on teh used market. The info is just not available out there. Don't drink the Google Kool-Aid. I own only 1 book yo! Locomotives: The Modern Diesel & Electric Reference -2015 Second Edition - Paid $27 Books are simply outdated. There is no no need to buy a ton of books on railroading when there is unlimited access on the Internet and online book options. I just got this one book last weekend to have on hand as my personal guide but mostly just to show people that I know how to read. The book has a ton of photos for me too! Outdated AND wasteful. Every single book ever written is now on the internet or will be in a few years, yet people have to know how to look for them and thats getting better thanks to most folks now having cable. In the near future all paper liberaries will be un-necessary I have a few Santa Fe and PRR books, and TP&W in Color. |
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Post by roadkill on Jun 13, 2016 10:38:32 GMT -8
Maybe 50 or so.
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Post by Dewey3 on Jun 13, 2016 17:11:22 GMT -8
Even resources that are on the internet are not forever ... Jeff P's wonderful RI site is gone (sob).
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Post by riogrande on Jun 14, 2016 4:35:15 GMT -8
Ain't that so. I have to go though my Book Marks (favorites) every now and then and clean out the dead-wood.
In the end, books are still there when websites go dark, which they inevitably do.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2016 17:30:41 GMT -8
Every single book ever written is now on the internet or will be in a few years, yet people have to know how to look for them and thats getting better thanks to most folks now having cable. In the near future all paper liberaries will be un-necessary So what you are saying is copyright will be done away with? And if every single book will be on the internet, please take a look at my list posted earlier and tell me where I can view them, page for page? Ever hear of Information superhighway? Give a few years for the rare things to be scanned as long as the next Administration keeps the program funded |
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Post by riogrande on Jun 20, 2016 2:18:45 GMT -8
So what you are saying is copyright will be done away with? And if every single book will be on the internet, please take a look at my list posted earlier and tell me where I can view them, page for page? Ever hear of Information superhighway? Give a few years for the rare things to be scanned as long as the next Administration keeps the program funded So are you telling me Chuck Conways Heart of the Rockies will be available on the "Information Superhighway" for me to view in it's entirety free of charge? I'm skeptical of that. |
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Post by mlehman on Jun 20, 2016 9:02:51 GMT -8
Ever hear of Information superhighway? Give a few years for the rare things to be scanned as long as the next Administration keeps the program funded Google has done a lot of scanning of old books. For those old enough (~80 years past copyright or so) that the copyright has expired this works, but there are bunch published more recently than that which Google doesn't scan because the copyright still holds. AFAIK, there's isn't a general government program just to scan old books, although there are some specific projects intended to get older info on line. And that's just books. There are millions of cubic feet of records in the National Archives that would be great to have on line. Not happening, although as a historian I wish it were so. |
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Post by Brakie on Jul 17, 2016 5:52:48 GMT -8
I don't have much of a library:
C&O Power
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway In Color 1 & 2
Chessie System Diesel Locomotives
Chessie, The Railroad Kitten
Pennsy Power II
Norfolk & Western First Generation Diesels
Norfolk & Western Second Generation Diesels
Norfolk and Western: Diesel's Last Conquest.
American Shortline Railway Guide
How To Build A Switching Layout
"How To Design A Small Switching Layout"
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On the other hand I have 32 railroad DVDs.
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I own only 1 book yo!
