New Heathkit book

[Les Bird]

Hi all,

Found this "new" book about the Heathkit H8 computer. Publication date was January 2013. Is this for real?

http://books.google.com/books?id=pNN7MAEACAAJ&dq=Heathkit&hl=en&sa=X&ei=E_aYUbvlJdO20QHnlIGYAg&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA

- Les

[Glenn Roberts]

The description reads like its just a collection of stuff cut and pasted from Wikipedia. Strange.

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[Mark Garlanger]

Yep, just a collection of wikipedia articles. I recognize the text which I added to the H89 wiki entry. So for 90 pages, and $20-25 to print it on demand from the two local bookstores. I wonder how much these "authors" are getting from that. At least it mentions wikipedia, hopefully people will know better than to buy it.

[Bill Loguidice]

This is another one of those banes of the Internet. Wikipedia allows more or less unrestricted re-use of its content, so some "enterprising" individuals repackage it as books. Pure garbage.

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[Norberto Collado]

Better reading is at;

 

http://koyado.com/Heathkit/Z67-IDE_files/How%20To%20Use%20Heath%20Computers.pdf

[geneb]

They're basically selling printed copies of the Wikipedia entry.

It's legal and reinforces the old saw about fools and their money being
soon parted. It's also jackassery at its finest.

g.

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