Re: USB microscopes for very small SMT

Phil Hobbs wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Phil Hobbs wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Steve Sousa wrote:

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So if you need and incentive, John, Jim, Joerg, Jan, please write at least notes,
something like the old HP Journal used to be, i'm sure it would inspire a lot of
us.


When I begin to (partially) retire I will. But not as a book, it'll be on a web site so people can access it without cost.


For 10 years, then *phut*. No archival copies. Old books are always the best.


Nah. I've found lots of stuff on the web that was from the days when nerds in their hippie buses were cruising Highway 1 :-)

Also, when something is on the web and I find it extremely useful I often pull a copy onto my hard drive. This gets backed up. With a book you need a publisher and it costs a lot of money. People in developing countries may never be able to afford one and might not have access to a library because their parents couldn't afford a good school for them. Especially in analog there are many self-taught folks who'll never have a formal degree.

When I published something I often received requests for offprints, almost all from poor countries. One guy wrote that despite him being a Ph.D. he was only allowed very few runs on the intitute's copier, that the thing was broken most of the time anyhow and that they had four hours of electricity on a good day. That made me sad and I returned the IRC coupons he had sent with the offprint so he could use them again.


That's an argument for both/and, not either/or. Camenzind's book is an example.


Good point. I'll have to ask our pastor, he recently self-published a book. Although doing both will make the book even less of an economic success because many folks will not want to pay for a book if the content is available online for free.

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