Fine Woodworking CD

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I have been receiving offers for a CD from Fine Woodworking (Taunton Press)which has 35 years worth of magazines on it for $149.95. Has anyone here bought it and, if so, is it worth the price?

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I get the same email ad from them but at that price, I can buy something probably more useful to me. My budget is not as wealthy as it used to be. Have no idea if it is worth the price but certainly would be interested in hearing from someone who has it and has viewed it.
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I have a full set of the magazines so have little use for the CD. While I hear the text search is nice on the CD version, I hate scrolling through pdf files. I would much rather leaf through the magazines. A full set used to be pretty expensive $500 or so, however the prices on the magazines have plummeted. Recently a full set went on ebay for less than $150. I haven't been tracking this closely but suspect that it may be possible to build a full set for about the same price as the CD.

Food for thought.

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I have the DVD, along with the set of CDs from Wood and the CDs from Popular Woodworking. I love having the references, and looking at the old Shopsmith ads. :-)
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I have the CD. It's main strength is it's powerful search feature. These magazines go back into the 70's and there are a lot of woodworking plans. for example, you can search for something like "coffee table", and it will bring up all these references in the magazine's past history.
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About that Fine Woodworking cd
Check this out on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fine-Woodworking-Ar ... 19bb3d72c4

Real or knot.... You decide
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I agree that you can use the search feature to find almost anything. If you have an old computer be prepared to wait a long time for it to load since it is necessarily a huge bunch of bits.

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ryanbp01 wrote:I have been receiving offers for a CD from Fine Woodworking (Taunton Press)which has 35 years worth of magazines on it for $149.95. Has anyone here bought it and, if so, is it worth the price?

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[INDENT][INDENT]I get the same ad's. I've also seen the product on computer.

My preference is to scan the hardcopies.

The reference index is "a nice to have"... but then again :rolleyes: so is the $150....
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mikelst wrote:About that Fine Woodworking cd
Check this out on ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Fine-Woodworking-Ar ... 19bb3d72c4

Real or knot.... You decide

Be careful with this auction, discs from oversees frquently do not play on US equipment :eek:
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Could be pirated methinks. Aaarrgghh!
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