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peter-h:
I have a few hundred kg of data books, going back to 1990 and then some before that.

The reason it is 1990 is because I inherited a load back then; before that I collected only ones actually needed.

I can't see these have any value to anybody because most data sheets can be found online with google, but some of these data books have "famous" appnotes in them e.g. from Jim Williams (Linear Technology).

So I was going to chuck them out, but maybe somebody could use them.

Location is Brighton area, SE UK.

tooki:
::sigh:: if I were nearby…

(I need to make another visit to Bournemouth to see my tattoo artists, so somewhat closer than the mainland, but of course Swiss (the airline) is so stingy with weight that it’d be impossible to bring back anything. :( )

daqq:
Try contacting terrahertz:

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/brainstorming-the-boxes-urgent-request/

TerraHertz:
Hmm, what a pity. I can only take on one impossible crazy, costly quest at a time.
Also I already have a 'several hundred Kg' data books collection, so there'd be a lot of overlap.
Sure wish I could pick out a couple of boxes full though.
Are they on shelves? Any chance of a photo series of spines along the shelves? At resolution good enough to read the titles?

Whatever you do, don't bin them. Do a photo summary and post them for sale (or free?) as a collection. On ebay and mail lists like cctalk cctalk.classiccmp.org / classic computers.

Also please try to find a taker who will give an assurance that they will be preserved in their original paper form. You will find _many_ people all fired up to 'scan them, now!' But they won't be able to, or may use a destructive method like slicing off spines and using an auto-feeder. Results are near worthless, and the books are destroyed. It's a kind of collective derangement. Nearly as bad as book burners.

Collections such as yours need to be preserved from fools like that, at least for the next few decades. By then there will be adequate solutions to the problems of physical scanning and file representation that plague current scanning efforts. For eg the PDF standard contains NO adequate image format (and never will.)  JPG, BMP, Fax-mode, etc are not adequate. PNG is close to good enough, but PDF does not include the PNG format. Not many people know that. 

Result: everything ever scanned to PDF is going to have to be redone in a better format eventually. That's one reason paper originals need to be preserved.
Another is that digital documents can lie. There are other reasons too.

DiTBho:

--- Quote from: peter-h on April 22, 2022, 06:55:52 pm ---I can't see these have any value to anybody because most data sheets can be found online with google

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eh, the digital datasheets on Google didn't stop me from buying !!!90!!! Kg of paper datasheets produced by Motorola between 1972 and 2001.

I love the smell of a sheet of paper, of a good tree that has become a source of knowledge, and still caress your fingers as you browse sheets.

My Remarkable2 is a great device to carry tons of datasheets with you, it is more practical when you travel, so it is the one I use for work, you can also write digital notes on a page, you can do research, you can do a lot of things that you can do with the paper datasheet, but ... there is no tree smell and no page will caress your fingers as you flip through the sheets.

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