Re: re: printing new manuale: Elecraft Digest, Vol 42, Issue 18

[I7SWX]

Hi all,
the question of giving a manual on a CD is generally
supported by people producing the manual but not
reading it.

The phrase .. we do not like to cut trees... is
usually an excuse .... we can use recycled paper.

I am one of those tha still like to read a paper book
anywhere when necessary ... at a doctyor while waiting
the turn, in the train, in the plain, in bed, at the
table, in the living room ... in the thinking room,
alias the bathroom ...

Apart the trouble in going around to find a printing
service at a low cost ... in this side of the world
... a page from a photocopy service usually is around
10 cents of an euro, 15 US cents, a page .. front to
retro is like two pages, although you have a single
paper sheet... plus if you are copying a book there is
a legislationto protect the copyright and you are
charged an additional tax .... If Elecraft is going to
sell 1000 K3, can print a manual in china, india,
bangladesh fora couple of US$... now imagine those
poor K3 owner having a 100s pages all loosen that
after a few readingsa will get dameged broken and lost
somewhere .. so new printing ... then you will have to
make these in a configuration like a book ... Imagine
... 3000$ versus 10000$ (if a cheap rpinting service
will be found).

A CD is OK as a lirary back-up ... imagine yourself
going to the the toilette with a PC to read how to
tune the DDS .... maybe one day we will be forced to
use a CD in that place too ... to save a tree that
someone else will burn down so he can plant another
one and make money...

73

Gian
I7SWX


 


       
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[Thom LaCosta]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Giancarlo Moda wrote:

> A CD is OK as a lirary back-up ... imagine yourself
> going to the the toilette with a PC to read how to
> tune the DDS .... maybe one day we will be forced to
> use a CD in that place too ... to save a tree that
> someone else will burn down so he can plant another
> one and make money...

I know a few hams that are so into technology they have a telephone,
tv and computer terminal in the bathroom.  If I would have spent the
time they do in there, my parents would have wondered all sorts of
things.

As far as being forced to use the cd nedia there....when growing
up in the primative country, where we still had outside privies,
the phrase "Rough as a Cob" was well understood.  Perhaps a
CD in the bathroom is cutting technology....I'll pass, I'd rather
kill a tree.

73 -  k3hrn
Thom,EIEIO
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