Date:         Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:42:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
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From:         Keith Adams <keith_adams@TRANSCANADA.COM>
Organization: TransCanada
Subject:      Re: Bentley Manuals on CD-ROM
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I agree with Ken's comment on the price - I was under the impression
that books are expensive to typeset and print and bind, but CD's should
be cheap, thus why user's manuals for software are no longer printed.
Oh well, I guess they can demand whatever they want and we'll pay it,
right? ;-)  That said, I'm sure the development costs ain't cheap
either.  Having used some other "printed" manuals put on CD, they are
really handy, especially when you have a thousand pages to flip
through.  Plus, having hyperlinked text in sections is a big help too.

My more philosophical problem with Bentley manuals on CD-ROM is that in
20 years, I don't see my kids stumbling across it in the garage and
going "Cool!" and reading it, they way I did with my dad's 1968
Transporter manual, or an old copy of Muir's book.  There's no nostalgia
in a shiny disk!

Keith Adams
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia, 1998 Golf Wolfsburg Edition