What can we do with 4.33 manuals?
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I have every 4.33 manual that I could print through Lulu. I printed them a few years ago, but now that I have the 4.34 manuals, the 4.33 manuals are in a closet collecting dust.
I was wondering if it would be permissible to sell those 4.33 manuals at half price? Maybe someone just getting into Falcon BMS would like printed manuals, but can’t afford the 4.34 ones on Lulu, and for half off it might be a good deal. However, I know that the first page of the manual says that unauthorized sale of the manuals are prohibited, so I thought I would ask.
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Compare old 4.33 features with new 4.34 features? I have manuals from 4.32!
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This is why I say don’t print such manuals. For price of paper printing you can buy a tablet which can view every manual forever. I think anyone who wants to expend effort or money will demand latest version.
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Colour laser printer, print your own, much cheaper
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This is why I say don’t print such manuals. For price of paper printing you can buy a tablet which can view every manual forever. I think anyone who wants to expend effort or money will demand latest version.
I stare at a screen many hours of the day and sometimes I just want to kick back out in the sun or while **** a **** with a nice printed book, run my hands across those wonderful graphics, feel the texture of a proper sheet of paper and whatnot. I’ve loved books all my life and the BMS manuals (no matter what version) are true works of art that I really enjoy seeing stacked on my bookshelf or next to my gaming rig. I know it’s probably stupid and a thing of the past, but my heart bleeds when throwing these manuals into the recycling bin. I usually give them away to friends just getting into BMS or who’d like to have a quick overview of what it’s all about.
All the best, Uwe
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Of course paper is nice. It is a luxury to have and the price one pays is that ink on paper is one time use.
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I stare at a screen many hours of the day and sometimes I just want to kick back out in the sun or while **** a **** with a nice printed book, run my hands across those wonderful graphics, feel the texture of a proper sheet of paper and whatnot. I’ve loved books all my life and the BMS manuals (no matter what version) are true works of art that I really enjoy seeing stacked on my bookshelf or next to my gaming rig. I know it’s probably stupid and a thing of the past, but my heart bleeds when throwing these manuals into the recycling bin. I usually give them away to friends just getting into BMS or who’d like to have a quick overview of what it’s all about.
All the best, Uwe
My thoughts and my doing as well
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much easy to bookmark too and hold fingers between pages to quickly move one section to another section
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I stare at a screen many hours of the day and sometimes I just want to kick back out in the sun or while **** a **** with a nice printed book, run my hands across those wonderful graphics, feel the texture of a proper sheet of paper and whatnot. I’ve loved books all my life and the BMS manuals (no matter what version) are true works of art that I really enjoy seeing stacked on my bookshelf or next to my gaming rig. I know it’s probably stupid and a thing of the past, but my heart bleeds when throwing these manuals into the recycling bin. I usually give them away to friends just getting into BMS or who’d like to have a quick overview of what it’s all about.
All the best, Uwe
@Red:
My thoughts and my doing as well
Me too! A glass of wine on the deck with my BMS manuals…now that is livin’. Myself a bibliophile also. I love the smell of books, especially brand new thumpers.:thumb:
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Do you keep track of the changes between versions RedDog? In future releases you could release a change page like the AF pubs do and mark the pages with change numbers. Then the people who like to print them could print only the changed pages and swap them out of their printed books.
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there are track changes, check the black bars in some of the manuals and their version history.
what you suggest doesn’t work from the editing standpoint, it’s too complicated to foresee changes in the content with the page printing in mind unfortunately.
Believe me writing the manuals as BMS still changes weekly is a real nightmare. And if we try to avoid that issue by delaying our start on the manual too long, by the time we’re ready to release, the dev version is so different that what we documented that everyone is screwed.
Feature freeze is a very dynamic concept in our line of workMinute details changes a lot as well in the documents and are not always identified. the format of the whole document will suffer greatly and anyway, the way the book is printed can’t account for loose pages.
I tried to do it with the dash one very early but it became quickly a real nightmare for me and my team for really few benefits for the readers. So I abandonned that way figuring that most ppl would use tablet anyway and those printing wouldn’t really mind considering BMS gets one version every 4-5 years anyway.if the paper loss of the printing costs is a concern to you, then I suggest Indeed to stick with the PDF and a tablet. beside it’s very convenient to read as you fly long boring leg