[Amps] magnetics book and others

[Will Matney]

Jeff,

Actually, I have gotten some real deals off ebay, you just have to keep looking for them. My whole electrical/electronic, and mechanical engineering library came from there with a few through Abe Books, and Alibris. I bought 25 books at once off one seller for an average of $1.25 each, and were all very good electronic books. I just bought a transformer book by William McLyman that regularly sells for $115+ on there for $10 off a guy. There's another one left, the link below. I bought the one titled "Transformer and Inductor Design Handbook". The one that's left which goes with it, and by the same author is titled "Magnetic Core Selection for Transformers and Inductors" which I already had. That's a really good deal off the prices everywhere else including Abe Books. Anyhow, I probably have about 200 books on electronics alone, not counting mechanical engineering, and most were from ebay over the years. If I want one, I never buy the first one I see and may wait months until I see a good deal and buy it. I have done like you mentioned and posted a book I need and a book seller will contact me. It's all in playing the game for a good deal. I'll check those others out you mentioned, they may have something I want.

Book;

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4612005998&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT

Best,

Will

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On 2/16/06 at 1:31 PM Xmitters at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 2/16/06 11:02:58 AM Central Standard Time, 
>amps-request at contesting.com writes:
>
><< I did a search of his store.
> 
> I know this isn't amps subject and I apologize.
> 
> But I am in the WRONG business.
> 
> 
> select price sort by highest. >>
>
>Pricing is one thing, getting the asking price is quite another. Do a
>search 
>at abebooks.com. A magnetics book came back priced at about 40 bucks,
>written 
>by a different author. There was a two volume set listed for over
>$1800.00! 
>Probably this same Ebay guy or maybe his brother-in-law.
>
>Another good source for technical books is powellstechnicalbooks.com  or
>try 
>Johnsontechnicalbooks.com. BTW, ABEbooks will allow you to establish a 
>standing want list and they will email you when the book you want gets
>listed.
>
>I asked the Ebay thief why he was charging too much and I also told him I 
>would not be doing any business with him because he's obviously trying to
>screw 
>people.
>
>I needed a book a while back about doing inductance calculations; I don't 
>remember the author. There was dome dip stick that wanted over 500.00 for
>his 
>stupid book and held firm on his price regardless of my needing it for
>research 
>work. I have since seen it for about 40 bucks. I think its the one written
>by 
>Curtis. Anyway, I ordered it from the local university library system and
>took 
>it over to Kinko's Copy Center and copied the whole bloody book! Fair use 
>copying, I'm writing a very LOOOoooonnng research paper.
>
>I'm all for paying a reasonable price for something but I'm not going to
>get 
>screwed over, copyright or no copyright. The author or publisher either
>one 
>are not getting their fair payment either way. And yes what I did was
>probably 
>wrong, technically. I did use the material for a research paper, however.
>Maybe 
>not as much of it as I copied.
>
>There are a lot of good used technical book dealers out there, willing to 
>work with you and give you a fair shake in the process. 
>
>My best one is Bequert used books in Fitzwilliam New Hampshire. His
>website 
>is http://www.beqbooks.com. Frank is the owner and he is a top notch,
>darned 
>good guy. THE BEST in customer service. He will even spend time going over
>the 
>table of contents to make sure the book is what you want. And yes, you can 
>return stuff so long as you don't order 12 books and expect to return 9.
>Order 
>what you really need.
>
>There is another one that specializes in selling books on old electronics, 
>telephones, transmitters and stuff. I cannot remember his name because it
>has 
>been so long since I got a catalog. I will research that if anyone here is 
>interested.
> 
>The bottom line is that there are lots of book dealers out there without 
>having to depend on Ebay. I can provide a list if any of you think you
>would be 
>interested. BTW, I built my engineering library mainly from ABEbooks.com, 
>Powellstechnicalbooks.com and Bequest. There is a lot of good stuff out
>there:-)
>
>Happy hunting :-)
>
>Jeff Glass, BSEE
>WB9ETG since 1970
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