Re: A paper manual

[Karel Sprenger <ks@ic.uva.nl>]

Hi,

At 12:52 9-10-98 +0200, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>I'm sitting here flipping through the illustrated Gnus manual, and I
>was thinking it might be nice to have it in a, eh, more permanent
>format.  Like -- bound properly and stuff.
>
>Now, I'm not saying I'm going to publish a bound version of the
>manual, but I wonder whether there's any interest in having something
>like that.  In one way, it's somewhat impractical -- infomation on
>dead, flat trees get outdated after a millisecond, and people can
>always print the thing out themselves.  And it will probably be heavy
>-- the one I have is 1kg.  But -- if I were to do something like that,
>would any one of you like to buy one if the price was not
>unreasonable? 
>

I'd buy one if it were less heavy than the single-sided printed manual :-)
It certainly deserves a proper book!  Wouldn't O'Reilly be interested?  Or
is that not a "proper" organization?

Cheers,
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