The Boy Mechanic

Yikes, it's a 17 MB download, all in one piece!

Saved for a day when I don't feel like doing anything with my computer for a while!

Regards,

Bob

Very nice! Thank you. Will have to browse the rest of the URL

Nick

On 20 Nov 2005 19:18:53 -0800, with neither quill nor qualm, "Bob" quickly quoth:

I always do my Usenetting while downloading. Agent doesn't take much memory or CPU cycles so it's perfect. Try it sometime.

-- Sex is Evil, Evil is Sin, Sin is Forgiven. Gee, ain't religion GREAT?

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For some reason the original post did not come to me. Would someone repost at least the link?

- - Rex Burkheimer WM Automotive Fort Worth TX

Bob wrote:

computer

I was able - just at 6 minutes. Not really ripping - Modem is locked on 100M but there is a link somewhere - likely limited at Gutenberg or between.

Martin Martin Eastburn @ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net NRA LOH, NRA Life NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder

Rick wrote:

I have found that there are advantages to having your son set up the (his too) DSL line :)

Kevin Gallimore

Our local library had the "boy mechanic" when I was a kid - must have read it cover to cover a dozen times. Now I can read it again.

Thank you for the link Is there another interesting ebook about metalworking in the whole gutemberg project?

This is a large download! over 17M. If anyone would like this on a CD, I'll burn it and mail it to you (anywhere in the world) for $5.00. I take Paypal.

Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA

-Ron Thompson

Before selling the work of others, you should read the terms of "Project Gutenberg".

Nick

OR read the first part of the file, permission is granted.

... for redistribution without charge. Yes.

Nick

He's not selling the "work of others" - just the download and duplication service. That is the work of him and his computer.

Would someone buy an empty CD (or one with binary noise on it) for $5? No. The value of the CD is from the work of others. It's just stealing of and pissing at the _free_ work of others.

Shame! EOD

Nick

If it were not public domain material, I wouldn't have made the offer. This is from the first page of the file:

Project Gutenberg's The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1, by Popular Mechanics This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at

Ron Thompson On the Beautiful Florida Space Coast, right beside the Kennedy Space Center, USA

-Ron Thompson

Do yourself and the contributors to Project Gutenberg the favour to read this:

Before you continue to spread huge piles of s*it!

Nick

If you only have a slow dialup and no CD burner, would you pay someone $5 to download and burn a CD for you??? Not too many years ago many people were paying a WHOLE LOT more than that (like 4 times that) just to get a CD burned - when THEY provided the data. I'd say $5 was fair reproduction cost. Content is worth a lot more than that.

Recovery of cost is NOT any violation of their license agreement.

Time involved and depreciation of the equipment used are legitimate costs. (And the $5 charge would be considered very reasonable for the service.) Charging for the costs is in no way selling the product. He would be charging for a service, not a product.

As per: those that transcribe from records to CD and charge for it, they're selling a service, not a product. It's pretty common, profitable, AND LEGAL.

Rich