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Desk Ref
Desk Ref NEW! 4th Edition - Our 'Desktop' Sized Edition is now comprised of ALL the terrific & timely information found in our best selling Pocket Ref 4th edition & Handyman in Your Pocket books, in a larger print format.
Plus an additional 12 NEW Sections!
1280 pages of tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions. Desk Ref is in an easy to read 6"x 9" format, soft cover
Plus an additional 12 NEW Sections!
1280 pages of tables, maps, formulas, constants and conversions. Desk Ref is in an easy to read 6"x 9" format, soft cover
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1280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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May 13, 2013
Awesome! It's everything you ever learned in school but forgot and suddenly needed to know.
I saw Pocket Reference on Mythbusters and asked for it for a present. Well, the gift giver couldn't find the pocket version, so I received teh Desk version instead!
The book is full of practical information for doing things and building things. It's also handy as a reference for writers.
Especially helpful? The conversion tables. Especially geekily fun to know? The "10 codes"--such as the actual meaning of 10-4, good buddy.
Why did I give it only 4 stars when I think it's so awesome? Because there are ERRORS (the horror!). Simple misspellings abound. The "insert apostrophe" proofreader's mark is incorrect: they just took "insert comma" and turned that symbol upside down, showing you insert a "6" open single quote instead of a "9" apostrophe. To not proofread your proofreader's marks? Bad form.
It's all those little mistakes that could have been solved with a little bit of proofreading that lost a star for me.
I saw Pocket Reference on Mythbusters and asked for it for a present. Well, the gift giver couldn't find the pocket version, so I received teh Desk version instead!
The book is full of practical information for doing things and building things. It's also handy as a reference for writers.
Especially helpful? The conversion tables. Especially geekily fun to know? The "10 codes"--such as the actual meaning of 10-4, good buddy.
Why did I give it only 4 stars when I think it's so awesome? Because there are ERRORS (the horror!). Simple misspellings abound. The "insert apostrophe" proofreader's mark is incorrect: they just took "insert comma" and turned that symbol upside down, showing you insert a "6" open single quote instead of a "9" apostrophe. To not proofread your proofreader's marks? Bad form.
It's all those little mistakes that could have been solved with a little bit of proofreading that lost a star for me.
April 23, 2023
Compendium of indispensable knowledge.
May 31, 2025
A not pocket sized reference tool in the pursuit of productive means for the end of civilization or when your internet goes down.
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