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At 03:02 PM 5/19/2007 -0400, Paul wrote:
>The subscription price to the end of June is 98 Euros, and it falls
>into the fat book (805pp) category.
I've been an information freak all my life, and it intrigues me that the
thickness of books is a "category." Have I missed something along the
line? Are there "good" fat books and "bad" fat books, or are they all
lumped together?
Many seem to consider Jorgensen's big red book on tuning a bad book, but I
just bought a copy of the 64th Edition of Chapman's "Piloting and
Seamanship" on sale at half price at B. Dalton, and I have the impression
that it's OK. Those books are about the same size, and both are fun to
browse. Both can be used as door stops. The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and
Physics is also about the same size. I've also got a few fairly fat books
about things like audio file formats and computer language user's
references, and I think they have to be thick in order to convey the
desired information. On the other hand, I recently bought on line a CD
containing a bunch of service manuals for BMW bikes, and it's not fat at
all. I guess I like fat books with pictures better than those without, fwiw.
JB
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