Re: Woodworking Magazine Index

On Mar 8, 8:52 pm, "daryl1...@xxxxxxxxx" <daryl1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 8, 10:50 am, rvscreati...@xxxxxx wrote:

Many woodworkers on this forum have used this index in the past to
find 'lost' articles buried in several years of woodworking and DIY
magazines they subscribe to. The index now boasts over 20,000 indexed
articles to help you find the topic you are looking for in your
library of magazines all in a matter of seconds. The results can be
printed, and the search parameters are very flexible, allowing
searches by category, issues, phrases and keywords. If it's been a
while since you last used the index, it's only larger now, so check it
out and see if it makes sense for you. You can find the index atwww.woodworkingmagazineindex.com. Let me know what you think or if you
have ideas for improving the index.

Happy sawdustin'
Rick

Rick,

Yes, two bucks ain't much until you look at the big picture.  I'm
hitting dozens to hundreds of sites on a regular basis.  Even at two
bucks a year the ol tool budget grows thin awfully quick.  Great idea
but there is just too much for free out there to justify any user cost
(other than dealing with ads).  Fine Woodworking is still number two
or three in the quality of its magazine plans but I will not pay extra
to be able to visit their website.

Each of the mags have their own e-index.  Yours does have the benefit
of searching all at once and if you can get more subscribers than
revenue from an ad supported site then I can't blame you.  There is a
down side however to your comprehensive search.  How many hundreds of
hits does a search for book case bring up?  To then pull all the
issues and look each plan up to see if I like the style is a bit
overwhelming.  What I do is scan the index of each mag when I get it
and crop to the picture of each project.  Name the file with the mags
name and date and you have a graphic thumbnail index of projects.  Not
keyworded and crossref'd but functional when one wants to build a
project.  I don't know if copyright prevents you from doing this but
it might make that $2 more justifiable.  Good luck with it anyway.

Daryl

Thanks Daryl. Yes, copyright becomes a problem. And the index isn't
for everyone. But if you do have a large library and are looking for
bookcase plans, well, there aren't too many alternatives except to go
to each mag's site, search and hope they have a link to the plan or at
least a picture, which for most they won't. So you're back to pulling
the articles from the individual mags . . . It's a pain sometimes;
I've done it enough, but it beats not having a list at all. I
generally avoid looking up plans for common items that are more than
6-7 years old; I generally find that they are dated in their design
and that more recent issues have plans that my better half would find
more attractive and current.

Rick
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