<VV> 1965 CHEVROLET CORVAIR SHOP SERVICE MANUAL on DVD ?

Mark Corbin airvair at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 28 11:47:22 EDT 2007


Hardly flat-earth, buddy. Discs are great for preserving rare documents
(which is why the LoC is doing that), but are often lousy for research.
Depends on how sortable the info is. Plus there's always the "stumble-into"
factor, something that's almost impossible to do with a disc but often
invaluable in finding obscure information. Anyone who has leafed thru
things like a parts manual or order catalog can appreciate that. And can
you imagine how devastating discs would be to impulse buying, if ALL
shopping were done that way? THAT's why discs are NEVER going to REPLACE
paper copies, merely SUPPLEMENT and archive the information that's on paper.

Everything has its place, and that's why book printing and selling will
never cease. If anyone is flat-earth, it's you "high-tech-at-all-costs"
people.

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From: John Kepler <jekepler at amplex.net>
> Subject: RE: <VV> 1965 CHEVROLET CORVAIR SHOP SERVICE MANUAL on DVD ?
>
> Sometimes
> low tech simply works better.
>
> Yet another "flat-Earther" that thinks digital watches are "high tech"!  
>
> Books and paper manuals will NEVER go out of style.
>
> That must be why the Library of Congress is digitizing everything, right?
>
> John
>




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