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snoman701

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I bought a copy of Metallurgy of Gold by Rose, and only half of it is legible. The scan quality is insufficient to even read.

Instead, I put an offer in on an antique edition on Ebay and got it for $20 shipped, which is $12 less than the Amazon reprint I bought.

I'm returning my highlighted version to Amazon. I feel a little guilty doing so, but it wasn't until i was actually reading it that I realized just how much I'm missing...and seeing as I bought this to develop an initial understanding of cyanide chemistry, missing every other page in the cyanide chemistry section is just completely unacceptable.

Just wanted to give a solid warning to those of you that might be looking for old books.
 
There are a few different postings of that book on The Internet Archives, as well as similar books by other authors;

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Metallurgy%20of%20Gold


https://ia801900.us.archive.org/2/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.206082/2015.206082.The-Metallurgy.pdf
 
jimdoc said:
There are a few different postings of that book on The Internet Archives, as well as similar books by other authors;

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Metallurgy%20of%20Gold


https://ia801900.us.archive.org/2/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.206082/2015.206082.The-Metallurgy.pdf

I know...but thank you.

Generally if I'm reading a book, I want to be without computer. There's something real about the printed word, bound. I used to photocopy books, and even that wasn't the same. Granted, the books I photocopied were generally $400+ books borrowed from University Library.
 
That sucks.
I guess when I suggested that book, I should have told you the vendor that I got mine from, as mine is a good copy with very few scanning artifacts that I ran into.

Usually it was just a word that was a bit too blurry, but I could still deduce what it was from the context of the sentence (and sometimes squinting just right).
 
Topher_osAUrus said:
That sucks.
I guess when I suggested that book, I should have told you the vendor that I got mine from, as mine is a good copy with very few scanning artifacts that I ran into.

Usually it was just a word that was a bit too blurry, but I could still deduce what it was from the context of the sentence (and sometimes squinting just right).

I knew I would be facing some artifacts, but wasn't expecting them to the extent that i got.

But that's ok...as I said, I got a 1986 reprint, doubt I'll face many scanning errors in that one!

This is the edition I bought from Amazon...so nobody buy this:

Hardcover: 548 pages
Publisher: Andesite Press (August 11, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1297701569
ISBN-13: 978-1297701566
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.2 x 9.2 inches
 
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