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Post by millsian on Mar 28, 2019 13:25:04 GMT -6
Slightly off topic but I’ve got 3 x £45 books by Friedman for just over £1 each on kindle
His books really good on all things naval just finished the one on British battleships which sells for £45 hardback and cost me £1.20 on kindle!
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 28, 2019 14:41:02 GMT -6
Slightly off topic but I’ve got 3 x £45 books by Friedman for just over £1 each on kindle His books really good on all things naval just finished the one on British battleships which sells for £45 hardback and cost me £1.20 on kindle! I have over 480 books on Kindle, some on Nook and some on Google Books. I have many Friedman, D. K. Brown and many others. I just tether my tablet to my phone and download any of my books. It's great for researching things. |
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Post by bcoopactual on Mar 28, 2019 14:59:31 GMT -6
Slightly off topic but I’ve got 3 x £45 books by Friedman for just over £1 each on kindle His books really good on all things naval just finished the one on British battleships which sells for £45 hardback and cost me £1.20 on kindle! I just checked the US Amazon and they had several books for Kindle of his for $1.30 as well. I normally prefer paperback or hardbound but that was too good of a deal to pass up. Thanks for the heads up. |
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Post by faennion on Mar 28, 2019 15:06:52 GMT -6
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 28, 2019 15:53:02 GMT -6
Absolutely, I have it in paper and on my kindle. They have another one: Sunburst: the Rise of Japanese Naval Air power. Both are excellent. Get both when you have the funds. |
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Post by axe99 on Mar 28, 2019 16:23:29 GMT -6
Cheers for the heads-up Millsian, I tend to prefer to read Friedman's books (lots of diagrams and illustrations) on paper, but it's nice to have a Kindle version to search or quote from as well (or as something on one side to read footnotes on - Friedman loves his footnotes!)
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 28, 2019 16:53:45 GMT -6
Cheers for the heads-up Millsian, I tend to prefer to read Friedman's books (lots of diagrams and illustrations) on paper, but it's nice to have a Kindle version to search or quote from as well (or as something on one side to read footnotes on - Friedman loves his footnotes!) One of the reason I bought a hand scanner was to allow me to scan pictures and pages of text to use. Works just great. |
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Post by axe99 on Mar 30, 2019 15:42:39 GMT -6
Just a heads-up - at least over here (Australian Kindle Store) it's not just Friedman - I get Amazon suggesting things to me every now and again, and today they suggested RA Burt's British Battleships 1906-1946 for $1.47 Australian. Aidan Dodson's The Kaiser's Battlefleet was also going for the same amount, as was David Brown's Rebuilding the Royal Navy. These are all very respected authors. I'll still get the hardcopies to read properly (but not suggesting this is necessary for a second), but having the Kindle versions for easy access on the road is worth it for that kind of price.
Edit: Couldn't see any others by those authors (or anyone else), no idea what's going on over at Kindle, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Mar 30, 2019 15:46:44 GMT -6
Just a heads-up - at least over here (Australian Kindle Store) it's not just Friedman - I get Amazon suggesting things to me every now and again, and today they suggested RA Burt's British Battleships 1906-1946 for $1.47 Australian. Aidan Dodson's The Kaiser's Battlefleet was also going for the same amount, as was David Brown's Rebuilding the Royal Navy. These are all very respected authors. I'll still get the hardcopies to read properly (but not suggesting this is necessary for a second), but having the Kindle versions for easy access on the road is worth it for that kind of price. I have all three of those on Kindle. Great buys. I also bought a book on Medieval Maritime Warfare for the same cost. I am going back to Amazon to see what else they have. I might buy the book on Frederick the Great. |
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Post by Warspite on Apr 12, 2019 9:31:13 GMT -6
Thanks for this thread. There are a lot of cheap naval Kindle books an Amazon at the moment. As well as the ones mentioned above I also bought these.
The Battleship Builders Constructing and Arming British Capital Ships Kindle Edition
by Ian Buxton (Author), Ian Johnston
The British Pacific Fleet: The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force
The Royal Navy in Eastern Waters: Linchpin of Victory 1935-1942
The Royal Navy and Falklands War
Armoured Trains
Pepys’s Navy: Ships, Men and Warfare 1649-89
Treaty Cruisers: The First International Warship Building Competition
Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy (Images of War)
Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign: The Italian Front 1915-1918
Stand by for Action: The Memoirs of a Small Ship Commander in World War II
Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle
Napoleon Against Russia: A Concise History of 1812
All cost either 99p or £1.19 each.
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Post by goodwood on Apr 12, 2019 18:38:27 GMT -6
Just a heads-up - at least over here (Australian Kindle Store) it's not just Friedman - I get Amazon suggesting things to me every now and again, and today they suggested RA Burt's British Battleships 1906-1946 for $1.47 Australian. Aidan Dodson's The Kaiser's Battlefleet was also going for the same amount, as was David Brown's Rebuilding the Royal Navy. These are all very respected authors. I'll still get the hardcopies to read properly (but not suggesting this is necessary for a second), but having the Kindle versions for easy access on the road is worth it for that kind of price. Edit: Couldn't see any others by those authors (or anyone else), no idea what's going on over at Kindle, but I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth. Darn missed that one Burt's book is back $35 on Oz Amazon |
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Post by abclark on Apr 13, 2019 13:44:15 GMT -6
So this is a touch off topic, but not too badly. I’m working on a project for which I need fairly precise schematics for ships from the the early 1910s to the late 1940s. www.shipscribe.com/styles/S-584/images/s-file/s584132.jpgThe above link is a good example. I’m much more interested in the layout of the compartments than the cross section. Does anyone have any recommendations as to books that would be good sources for this? Designs of US and British ships are much easier to find, so any books that have other nations designs would be especially appreciated. |
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Post by oldpop2000 on Apr 13, 2019 14:15:31 GMT -6
So this is a touch off topic, but not too badly. I’m working on a project for which I need fairly precise schematics for ships from the the early 1910s to the late 1940s. www.shipscribe.com/styles/S-584/images/s-file/s584132.jpgThe above link is a good example. I’m much more interested in the layout of the compartments than the cross section. Does anyone have any recommendations as to books that would be good sources for this? Designs of US and British ships are much easier to find, so any books that have other nations designs would be especially appreciated. You can browse through the manuals and documents on this site - This link is to the general plans - www.hnsa.org/manuals-documents/booklets-of-general-plans-online/This link is to the next higher step in the webpage with more manuals etc. - www.hnsa.org/manuals-documents/ |
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Post by abclark on Apr 13, 2019 15:49:28 GMT -6
Thanks. Those are helpful, just unfortunately not comprehensive.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Apr 13, 2019 17:32:00 GMT -6
Thanks. Those are helpful, just unfortunately not comprehensive. The comprehensive drawings that you are looking for, might not exist anymore and if they do, they are on microfiche in the National Archives or the Naval Archives. The Springstyles #2 book has disappeared, and only book #1 and #3 are still available. No book is going to have those detailed drawings, there are generally about 1000 of those drawings for each ship. So good luck. |
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