I scan relevant pages and store on my computer. I can them access them
easily when needed.

Thanks!
--

Brian Ehni

From:  STMFC List <STMFC@...>
Reply-To:  STMFC List <STMFC@...>
Date:  Monday, August 25, 2014 at 11:14 AM
To:  STMFC List <STMFC@...>
Subject:  Re: [STMFC] Re: Fwd: Lights out at the "Pub"





  

Hi Chuck and list members,


Isn't that what tablet computers are for? Seriously, the only case I have
found anymore where paper copies are useful at the workbench is for drawings
that have been reduced to scale size - that way you can hold the model next
to the drawing to assess your model.

Otherwise, a tablet or even smartphone is superior IMHO - takes less room,
is more versatile.

Claus Schlund



-------- Original message --------
From: "RUTLANDRS@... [STMFC]"
Date:08/25/2014  11:05 AM  (GMT-05:00)
To: STMFC@...
Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Fwd: Lights out at the "Pub"

    It's also a lot easier to have that paper copy at the workbench while
building that steam era freight car.
Chuck Hladik

In a message dated 8/25/2014 10:21:05 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
STMFC@... writes:
>   
> 
>
> It's hard to believe but I think it has been a decade and a half since I
> read the first rant from a magazine editor warning of the evils of "the
> internet". IRRC that was the first magazine to pull the plug.
>
> I  wrote a rebuttal back then... it's all old news but it was clear to me
> that even 15 years ago, the printed magazines were scrambling to hold on  to
> their relevancy, and apparently that included discrediting other  sources of
> information.
>
> Which is pretty fascinating - as recently  as 2014, a major manufacturer put
> out a product based on mediocre drawings  published more than 35 years ago -
> the third manufacturer to do so - when  this particular item is so well
> documented you could probably find out the  wire gauge and tension force of
> the toilet paper holder retainer  spring.
>
> I think before the mid 1990s, the hobby press enjoyed an elite
> status. Once published, it had to be true. Corrections never received the
> hype of the original cover story, nor would anyone have paid attention  even
> if they did. Once the barn doors were open, and the e-waves filled up  with
> the unwashed masses rubbing elbows with the same elitists that wrote  the
> articles, came the realization that everyone is human, and anyone can  make
> mistakes. And that the best way to get at the truth is to sift  through it
> all, and never limit your fact finding to a single anointed  source.
>
> I've enjoyed all the magazines over the years. I grew up with  them, and
> often late at night my dreams were fueled by articles published  before I
> was born, from my dad's stack of musty old issues of MR, RMC and  Model
> Trains (remember them?). But in terms of prototype modeling there's  no
> putting the genie back in the bottle and I wouldn't even if I could. I
> really don't know where paper press is headed, and it's not my problem to
> solve. Personally, I prefer paper. While I like the concept of MRH and
> acknowledge its growth guess what... I don't read it! In fact, I rarely
> read anything on line that is more than a page. I don't own a kindle or
> anything like it either. I still was buying hobby magazines right up until
> their last day.
>
> Andy
>
> 

  






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