To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.booksOpen lugnet.books in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Books / 40
39  |  41
Subject: 
Re: Lego Book "50 years of Lego"
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.books
Date: 
Sat, 4 Mar 2000 17:01:30 GMT
Viewed: 
10788 times
  
But no mass scanning from me. I would not be comfortable doing that. before • you
ask, I'll tell you why.

- it would take a very long time to do a propper job,

- scans would be huge files,


Well yes of course.

- I don't feel that it's ethical,


No comment.

- it would devalue the book itself, which is of collectors' quality,


This I highly doubt. I base this on the going prices of Idea Books that are
freely available on www.brickshelf.com. No matter how good the scan, there
is just no substitute for the real thing.

- and it was a recent gift to me from LEGO Denmark.


Why would they give you as a gift an 18 year old book?



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Lego Book "50 years of Lego"
 
One correction. I apologize for my laziness in earlier post. My book is indeed titled, "50 Years of Play." I mean for no argument here and I'm friendly in this discussion. But I also hope for simple respect of my stance. (...) To be clear, when I (...) (25 years ago, 5-Mar-00, to lugnet.books)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Lego Book "50 years of Lego"
 
(...) I have planned (when I get time) to put select parts on baseplate.com to share with the community (along with other LEGO book materials). There are some great old pictures and some funny stuff too. But no mass scanning from me. I would not be (...) (25 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.books)

13 Messages in This Thread:




Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR