Kindle/Sony? (was: MIT rad lab series)
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From: JosephKK on 18 Sep 2009 15:22 On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:37:28 -0700 (PDT), George Herold <ggherold(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Sep 1, 3:30 pm, Jon Kirwan <j...(a)infinitefactors.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 06:48:30 -0700 (PDT), George Herold >> >> >> >> >> >> <ggher...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >On Sep 1, 3:05 am, Jon Kirwan <j...(a)infinitefactors.org> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:38:57 -0700 (PDT), George Herold >> >> >> <ggher...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >A recent discussion on SED >> >> >http://groups.google.com/group/alt.electronics/browse_thread/thread/6... >> >> >> >Posted the following link to the MIT rad. lab series. >> >> >http://www.jlab.org/ir/MITSeries.html >> >> >> >Ive read none of these, and I figure its time to lay in some reading >> >> >material for those long winter nights that are coming shortly. >> >> >> >Ive ordered a copy of Volume 8 from the web. (I like Dicke and >> >> >Purcell.) And Im looking for other recommendations. (Volume 15 >> >> >Crystal rectifiers was referred to in the above SED thread.) Any >> >> >other gems? >> >> >> >George H. >> >> >> I have some (all?) in PDF form that were made available on the web >> >> back in 1998. I think I got them from here: >> >> >>http://cer.ucsd.edu/~james/notes/MIT%20OpenCourseWare/MIT%20Radiation.... >> >> >> Just in case you don't mind PDF files instead of paper books. >> >> >> You can at least preview them, this way. >> >> >> Jon >> >> >Cool, thanks for the link Jon, We just bought my mother-in-law a >> >kindle as a thank you gift. (Two weeks of vacation in her house on >> >Cape Cod...) And my wife was wishing we had one for ourselves. Not >> >sure how this would work for technical stuff... where you like to flip >> >around a lot. But for winter time reading it would be perfect. >> >> >George H. >> >> George, your comment reminded me about the shift from databooks being >> printed and distributed to all and sundry, years ago, to today where >> only PDF files are provided. I've tried (I wrote to the appropriate >> attorney staff at Texas Instruments after days of phone calls to get >> there) to get permission to print these PDF files via a service like >> Lulu or a local print shop. But they require pristine, clear title >> and will refuse to print a PDF file without attending it with written >> permission from the copyright holder. Texas Instruments is yet to >> provide me with documentation that, for example, Lulu considers >> adequate in order to print and bind a copy for me. >> >> The alternative I've used is a laser printer. I've even picked up a >> duplexing one years ago so that I didn't have to babysit the process >> so much, for longer documents where two-sided was the only reasonable >> choice. >> >> I miss having color (no, I didn't yet buy a duplexing, color laser >> system) sometimes, but most of the time that's okay. In the few cases >> where color is important (color used on graphs to distinguish curves, >> for example), I have hand-labeled things on the printed copy. It's >> usually just a few pages, though with published scientific papers it >> is more of a real pain. >> >> But I'm probably in the market for something along the lines of a thin >> tablet computer that is large enough that I don't need a magnifying >> glass to read technical documents and graphs (I can still read the >> writing on 0402 resistor parts without aid if the light is good) and >> which supports PDF files of all kinds and versions (I really, really >> do not want to go begging to huge semiconductor companies to redo >> their PDF files just so I can read them on some reader that only >> supports certain subtypes of PDF files.) Color would be a nice-to- >> have feature, but not strictly necessary. USB is fine to transfer >> files, I don't need 3G technology. >> >> Given where things are at, right now, it seems perhaps the netbook is >> the closest thing I can get on this score. The kindle seems a bit too >> small in the display to me, though I don't have any experience with it >> so maybe I'm wrong. Sony seems brand new in the market and some of >> Sony's are just announcements, not really existing for purchase. A >> larger display would also be really nice for presentations to share >> over lunch with someone else (such as a state or national legislator) >> nice -- notebooks are just too clumsy right now. But besides that >> need, when I'm working somewhere else other than at a computer I'd >> like to be able to 'carry' some books with me. And be able to read >> them comfortably. >> >> Thinks seem close enough that I can taste it, but far enough yet that >> it seems I must wait and just keep on printing for a while, yet. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Jon- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > >Hi Jon, I wanted to thank you again for the link to the rad lab >series. I downloaded a couple of these and they are all on the order >of 700 pages each! I've now got reading that will last me for >years. > >I really don't know too much about the kindle. (The Sony is not due >for release till Septemeber??) We purchased the newer larger size >kindle and amazon claims that this version can read pdf files without >having to put them into some other format. It also has a larger size, >and a larger price tag! $500.00. But I haven't seen it. We had it >shipped direct to Cape Cod. I hopefully will get a look at it around >Xmas time. I really like the idea of being able to read pdf files. >After all there is the Gutenberg project! > >George H. There are still various webbooks like Dell, and the eeePC.
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