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Fine Woodworking CD
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:53 pm
by ryanbp01
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?
BPR
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 2:41 pm
by rkh2
BPR
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.
Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:36 pm
by horologist
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.
Troy
Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:48 pm
by rdubbs
BPR,
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. :-)
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:17 am
by 8iowa
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.
Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:29 am
by mikelst
About that Fine Woodworking cd
Check this out on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fine-Woodworking-Ar ... 19bb3d72c4
Real or knot.... You decide
fine woodworking cd
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 5:30 pm
by forrestb
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.
forrestb
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:40 pm
by ryansm7
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?
BPR
[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
so is the $150....
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:51 am
by still_waters_43
Be careful with this auction, discs from oversees frquently do not play on US equipment
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 8:03 am
by ryanbp01
Could be pirated methinks. Aaarrgghh!
BPR