Re: Tube audio books in PDF format !


Patrick Turner wrote:
> Sander deWaal wrote:
>
> > Take a look here:
> >
> > http://www.pmillett.com/tecnical_books_online.htm
> >
> > ( Don't ask me about copyright though, I'm not affiliated with this
> > site or its makers in any way).

Thanks, Sander.

> RDH4 and Tremain's Audio Encyclopedia were not there.

RDH4 is in copyright, as I explained recently when someone posted
stolen PDFs.

Anyway, I was given an official PDF of the RDH4 on CD some years ago
and did the vendors a favour by not reviewing it, because it was so
appallingly difficult to work with that I couldn't think of a single
nice thing to say about it. The printed copy is the only one to have.

Everyone needs three copies of the RDH4: one on the workbench, one on
the lavatory bookshelf, one on the bedside table to read aloud to your
wife or girl when she can't sleep.

I wouldn't mind a copy of Tremain but I suspect that too is in
copyright.

> By searching under 'vacuum tube' a shirtload of titles appear.
> But you don't seem to be able to just download the pdf you see listed.
> Maybe you have to pay for it... its OK, maybe it is worth it, some
> titles look
> very tantalizing.

You got it wrong. I downloaded some titles successfully. Use a late
version of Netscape because this guy's server or local programming
isn't too hot and the link keeps breaking down or being overloaded
(Sander made him too popular!) and then you have to try again. Open the
download manager, doubleclick on the picon to the left, and Netscape
picks up downloading where you left off, rather than start at the
beginning again. You also need Adobe Reader to use the files. (This
won't concern a computer neanderthal like you, Patrick, but some of the
Mac guys here will have Acrobat on their Macs. Acrobat tries to muscle
in on Reader, and then the files won't open at all because the guy who
scanned them locked them with a PDF password in such a way that Acrobat
demands it before it will open the file; the guy making these files
missed out a single crucial step of the process. Aargh! Never mind, it
is free information... and both Preview and Adobe Reader open the files
by drag and drop.)

Andre Jute

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