Guess who wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 09:08:17 -0500, (J T)
wrote:

I constantly see people posting about books here, which ones to
get, where to get them. You'd think they were in about the 3d
grade. Hell, even school kids know about the library.

You got that one right. It's called making an adult decision, and
that's becoming more and more rare these days.


I don't know how many woodworking books were in the library in the bad old
days or what was available in run of the mill books stores either but I do
know that today there is more than enough in either. I've found the ones
at the library to be old and pointed towards what you would like to build
rather than wood working techniques. At the book store most of the books
are pointed at styles of furniture or again, what you would like to build.
I have 10-15 of these kinds of books already and I could have kept on
buying those 'til the cows come home and never have found Tage Frid. His
name came from someone in this group (thank you) maybe now I won't have to
buy another 10-15 books, or hunt down another dozen at the library to
figure out how these things were done.

It's a pain in the neck to keep making booklists for newbies, but it is a
help to the newbie and save us $$$ we'd rather be spending on wood.

Why not make up a list in the word processing program of your choice and
cut & paste the list whenever the question comes back up again? Consider
it, (scarey as it may be) an act of kindness.

As for the email senders - nuke 'em!

Josie