Re: [ATM] List "reference material"

[Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com>]

>
>
>People surfing the web, especially the younger 
>set (which doesn't include me) just don't slow down for anything that 
>scrolls off the bottom of the screen.
>

The younger set no longer includes me either, but I have to admit I am 
sometimes just as guilty.  Like the way I replied to your message before 
reading it all, so that my reply is broken into two parts.

I think that people attracted to amateur astronomy, and, especially to 
telescope building are not likely to be the most impatient ones.  Even 
those that start mirror making on an impulse, and don't read up on it 
first, usually come to wish they had a good book sometime around the 
figuring and testing stage, if not before.

I agree that book writing is hard and long work, at least if you intend 
to make a good book.  I suspect that whoever tackles the assignment had 
better plan on not getting rich off of it.  The big hope would be that 
the book sells well enough to clear the publishing cost and make some 
profit, so that the publisher isn't scared off future atm books.

-- 
Mark Holm
mdholm@telerama.com


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