Books, Books, Books.

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[b]Books by W. H. Lawrie worth reading.

All-Fur Flies and How to Dress Them. 1967
Border River Angling. 1939
Big Trout. 1955
English and Welsh Trout Flies. 1967
International Trout Flies. 1969
Scottish Trout Flies. 1966
English Trout Flies. 1967
Modern Trout Flies. 1972

All the above books are available at reasonable prices,
at less than GBpounds20.00 - US$31.47.

The Book of the Rough Stream Nymph. 1947
This book will be a bit more expensive GBp 30.00+ US$47.21
still worth the money.
This book and ‘Border River Angling’ are the two books which
expound his theories on ‘surface nymphing’, which is an early
form of ‘emerger’ fishing.
His name for an Emerger was a Hatching Dun.

The reason for all this, is my recent mining of old fishing books
on the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/

Unfortunately Lawrie’s books are still in copyright, so, no freebies.
But, they are very reasonably (cheap) from second hand book dealers.
Easy source is AbeBooks http://www.abebooks.com/
There are others Barnes & Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

If you have an aversion to reading books,
you have my deepest sympathies.
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I don’t understand, are you selling these Don, or do I have to go to the sites you mention and look for them but because you’re just recommending them?

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I know this is a bit of a specific question…but does anyone know if there’s a way to read these on Kindle for Android?

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heres an example of a book on the archive site

http://www.archive.org/details/ogdenonflytying00ogdegoog

on the left side of the page it has “kindle” mentioned but i dont know if it will work for droid

i just got a droid x. what model droid are you using?

norm

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The Droid may read ePub files and I’m pretty sure it will read PDF files, both of which are available at this site.

If I am not mistaken, you will have to run the ePub file through a converter to be able to read it on a Kindle. I don’t think (I may be mistaken) that there is anything you can do with a PDF file on the Kindle.

The Nook and NookColor will read both formats.

This is a neat site - thanks

Adrian

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DT is just referencing the books.

DT, amen to your reading aversion statement.

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As Narco said, Donald is just referencing the books that contain a huge amount of information that is as useful today as it was when the book was published. Thanks to Donald’s suggestions to me, I have a wonderful library of fly fishing/tying books that are great company on a rainy, cold night.

Abe Books is one of my favorite places to purchase the older volumes.

REE

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Yeah, the Kindle app is being fussy about the MOBI file. Read a (fairly complicated) workaround, but it boils down to the fact that Amazon likes them some DRM.

Trying a different reader and an epub file when I get a minute here.

Got a HTC Incredible…my first smart phone. Lovin’ it.

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Update: Got it.

Downloaded here to the PC, saved to my Dropbox, DLed to phone from Dropbox, THEN moved it into the kindle directory from the Dropbox directory on my phone. mobi file, apparently amazon is okay with no DRM.

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I’m impressed with all the techno jargon. I haven’t a clue what it all means. :slight_smile:

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At the end of the day, it means I can read these books on my phone. :slight_smile:

If anyone else is trying to do this and needs help, I’ll do what I can. Just say so. :slight_smile: Not difficult, just takes a little prep and a few (free) apps.

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I’m a techie by profession, and I’m all for electronics that make life easier. I also read a lot, but just reading the menu’s on my ipod is sometimes too much eye strain even with my progressive lens’s (nice way of saying bi-focals). I cant imagine trying to read a complete book on a 3x4 phone. I’ll take the paper tome’s anyday.

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Fair enough. I like the feel and experience of reading a rel book, but the convenience and portability of a smart phone e-reader means I’ll do more reading when I have the chance.

Also, it’s free. :slight_smile:

The screen of my iPod sometimes bothers me after a long time, but I’ve never had a problem with my phone. Also, I changed my reader so that instead of black on white, it’s black on sepia.

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I’ve looked at e-readers, but since my eyes seem to be set in their myopic ways I just haven’t given it serious thought . I’ll bite the bullet at some point and get one I’m sure, but until then I’m fighting it all the way and not giving up my real paper books.:twisted:

Besides I would probably end up downloading a book then printing it off anyway! Oh Bother!!!

Incidentally the library is free too, where I get most of my paper books, and that includes many e-books as well. You dont have to return them, bu the timer starts when you download them. After x amount of days the file locks and you have to re-down load it. Keeps you from just loading up the e-readers or archiving them to a computer.

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I found that Open Libray http://openlibrary.org I have found many old books on fly fishing on this site, you can read the books on online, but you cannot download.

Another site is Internet Archives http://www.archive.org/ I have also found many old books on fly fishing on this site, and you can either read the books online, or download them to your computer. (google had help convert many of these old books to digital editions, and charges for the downloads).

Considering that these books are rare, and in many situations fragile (which is not Swahili for “Made of Steel”) this is still a great bargin for those of us who are search for lost knowledge and publications that are out of print and otherwise would not be available to us mere mortals!