Not so "tongue-in-cheek" unfortunately. From GoogleBooks "Q: Can you return my books when you're done with them? A:Our scanning process requires that your books be dismantled - as a result, we're unable to return your books to you." Yup, to digitize a book cost effectively it gets "dismantled" - destroyed that is. Oh well can't have everything:)
Hi c0d3r,
Try WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/ for any library stuff like that - here's just one location of the manual http://tinyurl.com/yqqkl9 - you might have to have the physical copy snail-mailed as an inter-library loan to you. Want to buy your own copy? Go here for most out of print stuff - http://www.bookfinder.com/ - here's your truck manual - http://tinyurl.com/3x7q2y
That took 5min:) thank god for Librari(an)s eh?
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Not so "tongue-in-cheek" unfortunately. From GoogleBooks "Q: Can you return my books when you're done with them? A:Our scanning process requires that your books be dismantled - as a result, we're unable to return your books to you." Yup, to digitize a book cost effectively it gets "dismantled" - destroyed that is. Oh well can't have everything :)
Hi c0d3r, Try WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org/ for any library stuff like that - here's just one location of the manual http://tinyurl.com/yqqkl9 - you might have to have the physical copy snail-mailed as an inter-library loan to you. Want to buy your own copy? Go here for most out of print stuff - http://www.bookfinder.com/ - here's your truck manual - http://tinyurl.com/3x7q2y That took 5min :) thank god for Librari(an)s eh?
Wow, the slashdot community meets it's twin! In a sort of Star Trek "Mirror, Mirror" way without the evilness. By that I mean that the Libraryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library community has been at the forefront of infotech since BCE putting the tech to real use for the general populace - making the info available. Tags? try the MARChttp://www.loc.gov/marc/overview.html/ based WorldCathttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldCat/, Deep Web? try your Nationalhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_libr ary/ Library or Consortia.http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/ Come on slashdotters get in behind your Libraries and build the future!