[AJD] Disappointment: New JD Book

[Paul O]

Is this just a recently published book? I know Randy went around the country 
this past summer taking pictures for a book which was to be available late 
this year.
Paul O

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Vinson" <vinsond at voyager.net>
To: "AT John Deere" <antique-johndeere at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 12:20 AM
Subject: [AJD] Disappointment: New JD Book


>I periodically have to re-learn what a sucker I am for new and 
>interesting-looking books.  Latest iteration was my recent purchase of John 
>Deere: A History of the Tractor, by Randy Leffingwell.  For quite a few 
>years I've thought his previous book, John Deere Farm Tractors, was about 
>the best coffee-table type book on the antique and classic green tractors. 
>He's a great photographer and writer, and a serious historian.
>
> So this big new book comes out, eleven years after the other one, and I 
> figure it'll be great.  More and better, accumulated wisdom of an 
> additional decade in the business, etc.  Huge disappointment.  There's 
> certainly some new stuff, but way, way too much of it is just recycled 
> from the original book, word for word or nearly so, stretched out with 
> bigger type and wider line spacing, and dorked up with artsy shadow 
> effects on some of the photos.
>
> I'll slowly make my way through it and try to pay attention to the parts 
> that are actually different from the older book, and see if there's enough 
> there to make it recommendable.  At first pass, though, it looks to me 
> like it should have been published under exactly the same title as the 
> original, perhaps labeled "Second Edition" or some such.  Or maybe I just 
> need to get better at remembering to keep my wallet shut.
>
> Dean Vinson  --  Dayton Ohio
> <http://my.voyager.net/~vinsond/>
>
>
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