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Can anyone tell me if the JLC ten year CD is worth getting. While perusing their site due to recent post , I saw that. Obviously I subcribe (was planning on it) then buy the CD. At $100 it is a deal versus cover price for ten years. I am concerened that the first five years might be a little old in topics light electric fixtures, engineered lumber, thermal & moisture, etc.
-Rob
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I have the '93-97 CD. Paid about $35.00 (?) for it at a conference in San Jose' last Fall. Cheaper than subscribing. Pretty good, but the adobe PDF format is a little wearing. Keep haveing to reset the screen view to enlarge the page on my 1600x1200 monitor.
Very interesting, but easy to lose track which issues and articles you've already read. Wish there was some kind of marker file or change in the color of the text link like you have on internet browsers.
*I like the idea of a search engine for topics & articles. But as a charter subscriber I 'm having a hard time with the concept of buying all those articles again in a new format. I guess it would enable me to recycle all that old newsprint though.Jon
*My wife got me the '93-'97 cd and made me throw out all my old issues. It is pretty good, but I was hoping for just a plain cover to cover repeat, ads and all. It is a little cumbersome to look at, but my wife is happy with the extra shelf space. I plan on the up grade and was pissed that they didn't do this from the start.I've begged FHB to do this, hell, even National Geographic has done this.
*J.D.:I sort of miss the ads also. It was probably too much trouble for the publisher to get permission from all the advertizers to reprint their ads. Any prices would be outdated, and repeating some product features and claims might be out of date or inaccurate now and subject the advertizers to further liability?I had a book on old Science Fiction and Popular Mechanics type magazines. They had a chapter on the ads of the '30's and '40's that was a hoot. Ads for X-ray glasses, get rich quick schemes, medical quackery machines, body builders, correspondence schools for obsolete careers, unusual classified ads, bizarre religions, military recruiting ads, build-your-own gyrocopter kits etc.Sometimes you can learn a lot from ads. Not that we need a lot of them...
*Gary,Do you have the number for the obsolete career info?