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Now on Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/SolderSmoke-Ad...2513962&sr=8-1

SolderSmoke is the story of a secret, after-hours life in electronics.
Bill Meara started out as a normal kid, from a normal American town.
But around the age of 12 he got interested in electronics, and he has
never been the same.
To make matters worse, when he got older he became a diplomat. His
work has taken him to Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, the Spanish
Basque Country, the Dominican Republic, the Azores islands of
Portugal, London, and, most recently, Rome. In almost all of these
places his addiction to electronics caused him to seek out like-minded
radio fiends, to stay up late into the night working on strange
projects, and to build embarrassingly large antennas above innocent
foreign neighborhoods. SolderSmoke takes you into the basement
workshops and electronics parts stores of these exotic foreign places,
and lets you experience the life of an expatriate geek. If you are
looking for restaurant or hotel recommendations, look elsewhere. But
if you need to know where to get an RF choke re-wound in Santo
Domingo, SolderSmoke is the book for you.
SolderSmoke is no ordinary memoir. It is a technical memoir. Each
chapter contains descriptions of Bill’s struggles to understand
(really understand) radio-electronic theory. Why does P=IE? Do holes
really flow through transistors? What is a radio wave? How does a
frequency mixer produce sum and difference frequencies? If these are
the kinds of questions that keep you up at night, this book is for
you.
Finally, SolderSmoke is about brotherhood. International, cross-border
brotherhood. Through the SolderSmoke podcast we have discovered that
all around the world, in countries as different as Sudan and
Switzerland, there are geeks just like us, guys with essentially the
same story, guys who got interested in radio and electronics as
teenagers, and who have stuck with it ever since. Our technical
addiction gives us something in common, something that transcends
national differences. And our electronics gives us the means to
communicate. United by a common interest in radio, and drawn closer
together by means of the internet, we form an “International
Brotherhood of Electronic Wizards.”
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wrote:
Now on Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/SolderSmoke-Ad...2513962&sr=8-1
It's should say FOR SALE. I still have to pay Amazon money for it, which
makes it a for sale ad, just like any other.

I've enjoyed your podcasts, and I might even want to read your book, but IHMO
adversting something on this group is a violation of the charter. If you want to
sell your book, you should post it on the forsale groups as forsale, not
as available on a noncommerical group.

Since I don't have an Amzon account, and I'm not about to spend $12 on it,
is not available for MY kindle.

Available would be more appropriate for a PDF file you could download for
free.

Geoff.


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"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
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wrote:
Now on Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/SolderSmoke-Ad...2513962&sr=8-1
It's should say FOR SALE. I still have to pay Amazon money for it, which
makes it a for sale ad, just like any other.

I've enjoyed your podcasts, and I might even want to read your book, but
IHMO
adversting something on this group is a violation of the charter. If you
want to
sell your book, you should post it on the forsale groups as forsale, not
as available on a noncommerical group.

Since I don't have an Amzon account, and I'm not about to spend $12 on
it,
is not available for MY kindle.

Available would be more appropriate for a PDF file you could download for
free.

Geoff.


I bought it about a year ago, it's a good read. Go buy the book!
Mikek


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"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
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wrote:
Now on Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/SolderSmoke-Ad...2513962&sr=8-1
It's should say FOR SALE. I still have to pay Amazon money for it, which
makes it a for sale ad, just like any other.


I guess to me it's pretty evident that anyone specifically telling you
something is available for the Kindle is looking to sell it, not give it away
(...in which case they could likely just use a PDF).

Since I don't have an Amzon account, and I'm not about to spend $12 on it,
is not available for MY kindle.


You can read Kindle books on most smartphones, Android tablets, and Windows
PCs/tablets as well. The DRM is definitely annoying, although for a "fun
read" sort of book like this (as opposed to, e.g., a reference text) I could
see putting up with it.

---Joel

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Joel Koltner wrote:

I guess to me it's pretty evident that anyone specifically telling you
something is available for the Kindle is looking to sell it, not give it away
(...in which case they could likely just use a PDF).


It's not evident at all to me. After all, it was SPAMed to a bunch of
newsgroups that don't allow sale postings.

As for Amazon, aren't there free books for the Kindle there?


You can read Kindle books on most smartphones, Android tablets, and Windows
PCs/tablets as well. The DRM is definitely annoying, although for a "fun
read" sort of book like this (as opposed to, e.g., a reference text) I could
see putting up with it.


Maybe he just wanted to use Amazon as the distributer, or had a friend in
the Kindle publishing business?

Geoff.



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"Geoffrey S. Mendelson" wrote in message
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After all, it was SPAMed to a bunch of
newsgroups that don't allow sale postings.


Fair point, strictly speaking I would have to concur with you there, even if I
do consider it a pretty minor transgression.

As for Amazon, aren't there free books for the Kindle there?


Yes, it's just that usually no one bothers to advertise them much due to the
lack of potential financial gain and all. :-) (And I also think the 100% free
ones have to be physically downloaded via USB or WiFi to your PC -- you can't
get them over Amazon's "whispernet," which is just the Sprint cell phone
network where Amazon cut a deal with Sprint to deliver books in (near-) real
time, the price of this delivery being bundled into the price of the book.)

Maybe he just wanted to use Amazon as the distributer, or had a friend in
the Kindle publishing business?


I figured that, like many hams, he was thinking he'd charge an inexpensive
price and use the proceeds to buy more radios and antennas and produce more
episodes of SolderSmoke. :-)

---Joel

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