[AJD] Disappointment: New JD Book-HOBBY BOOKS IN GENERAL

[Guy Fay]

Not really payment of royaties- more like a publishing company writing 
specs for book contracts that don't allow for more than telling the base 
story. There was tons of reseach done for this book.

Dean VP wrote:

>Dean:
>
>I too am suspect of this updated book and if I knew that it really contained
>additional and valuable information I would buy it. But my cynical mind
>believes it has something to do with the payment of Royalties. I truly hope
>I'm completely wrong and get severely chastised for even thinking such a
>thing! 
>
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>I'm now ducking behind my desk looking for incoming objects!  :-) Do I need
>to add ATIS to my Spam filter?
>
>Dean A. Van Peursem
>Snohomish, WA 98290
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>I'm a walking storeroom of facts..... I've just lost the key to the
>storeroom door 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>[mailto:antique-johndeere-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of
>Dean Vinson
>Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 9:47 AM
>To: Antique John Deere mailing list
>Subject: Re: [AJD] Disappointment: New JD Book-HOBBY BOOKS IN GENERAL
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>Bill Brueck wrote:
>
> > Would invite contrary comments on this, but I make a point of having
> > the JR Hobbs books that cover those models that interest me.
>
>Ditto.  I just the other night re-read my copy of his older book on the 
>first numbered series, which is now in print again in an "updated" 
>version (quoting from Richard Hain's editorial in the November Green 
>Magazine).  So it's back on my list of books to think about buying.  I 
>notice, however, that the ads for the book don't say "Second Edition" as 
>they do for his book on the 30 series, and they've taken JR's name off 
>the front cover, so I'll hold off on getting one until I can find a copy 
>to browse through.
>
>Mike Massengale wrote:
>
> > If anyone can recommend some "must have" publications that would be
> > in line right behind the "essentials" for an early styled "B" I'd sure
> > appreciate it.
>
>Bill's recommendation of JR's books on the Letter Series is where I'd 
>start as well.  You can read a little about them (or order them) at 
><http://www.greenmagazine.com/store/page9.html>.
>
>Several others have commented about the various things people are 
>looking for in tractor books, the abundance of choices and the scarcity 
>of really excellent products, etc.  I've got a bunch of coffee-table 
>types, a bunch of nuts-and-bolts-and-production-numbers types, and 
>several operators, parts, and service manuals for tractors I've had or 
>would like to have, and happily spend just as long making sense of the 
>hydraulic system exploded view drawings as reading about the events that 
>influenced this company or that product design or whatever.
>
>I wrote my original post about Leffingwell's new coffee-table book 
>because I was mad that so much of the text and a fair number of the 
>pictures are recycled, but a big part of it is my own fault for 
>expecting something else.  Anybody who buys two books by the same author 
>that are both titled more or less "A History of John Deere Tractors" has 
>it coming.  And as I've begun really reading the book, I'm starting to 
>enjoy it despite myself.  I think Leffingwell's heart is in the right 
>place and I trust the list's own Guy Fay to have helped him include some 
>new and genuinely interesting stuff.  Given proper caution about not 
>necessarily taking the text as gospel, it's no doubt a very good book.
>
>But content aside, the packaging still rubs me the the wrong way.  I 
>respect a lot of his earlier books because they're high density--lots of 
>well-written interesting text and his trademark great photos in a 
>reasonably small package.  I thought this new book, coming 11 years 
>after his other JD history and being physically a great big damn thing, 
>would be the same way--not just a revision but a major work, with enough 
>new and better information to fill all those new and very large pages 
>and support that heavyweight price tag.  Instead a lot of it is just 
>bigger font size and more white space between each line.  Be careful, 
>Randy.  In your IH book you write about the big shiny Farmall 560 with 
>too many recycled guts and too few R&D hours...
>
>
>Dean Vinson  --  Dayton Ohio
><http://my.voyager.net/~vinsond/>
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