[time-nuts] Manuals heading for the dumpster

[DaveH]

Have they talked with archive.org?
 
These people have all kinds of scanners and are putting some 
amazing things online.
 
Dave  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf 
> Of Gregory Muir
> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 09:01
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] Manuals heading for the dumpster
> 
> To all,
> 
> Am not sure if any news of this has been posted in prior 
> times or not but will pass it along just in case.
> 
> Manuals Plus (http://www.manualsplus.com/) will be closing 
> its doors the middle of June.  The proliferation of available 
> PDF documents available plus the increasing number of other 
> sellers on eBay has reduced their business to a point where 
> they cannot afford to remain alive.  As a result, they are 
> going to close up shop.
> 
> No one has stepped in to assume the manual stock that they 
> currently have so it has been decided that when things cease, 
> all of their stock that hasn't sold will hit a large roll-on 
> dumpster and head either for the dump or a recycler.
> 
> They are entertaining offers for manuals at this point.  
> Becky, the main contact at MP is the one to talk to,  She is 
> very amiable to making deals on manuals.  I have been 
> stocking my files with some very unobtainable legacy manuals 
> for great prices far below the ones asked on eBay or from 
> other dealers.
> 
> It's a shame to see such a resource disappear.  But it is 
> even worse to see thousands of legacy manuals get destroyed 
> in the process.  MP has been one of my main sources for many 
> rare manuals from many equipment manufacturers over the years.
> 
> It is realized that the majority of their manual stock 
> pertains to test equipment but there may be that one odd 
> thing you are looking for that they have.  One comment is 
> that their search engine is somewhat primitive.  I produces 
> results from manufacturer names or equipment model numbers 
> only.  Try several variations of model numbers (such as 
> removing suffixes, etc) to see if other manuals will appear.
> 
> Greg
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