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<p>[QUOTE="dadams, post: 2623035, member: 82194"]There is a Huge difference between reading a book on a screen and enjoying a book in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] - you know well I'm a bookish guy and my favorite go to site for searching tomes is <a href="https://www.vialibri.net/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vialibri.net/" rel="nofollow">viaLibri</a></p><p><br /></p><p>viaLibri searches multiple databases including abebooks, alibris, biblio, and amazon among multiple others. The best thing about this is that you can exclude the PODs (Print on Demand) copies that have flooded sites like eBay making searches nearly worthless. Also, there are multiple search options available allowing you to fine tune a search. I always enter in the least amount of information to yield the greatest amount of hits and then fine tune from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don't know much about BMC so I'm guessing here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.vialibri.net/cgi-bin/book_search.php?refer=start&sort=pr&order=desc&hi_lo=hi&cty=US&lang=en&curr=USD&wt=20&fr=s&y=8511&act=search&yearmin=&yearmax=&pricemin=&pricemax=&xpod=on&since=40&sv=fGhlYWR8TWFjZWRvbmlhfHx8fA%3D%3D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vialibri.net/cgi-bin/book_search.php?refer=start&sort=pr&order=desc&hi_lo=hi&cty=US&lang=en&curr=USD&wt=20&fr=s&y=8511&act=search&yearmin=&yearmax=&pricemin=&pricemax=&xpod=on&since=40&sv=fGhlYWR8TWFjZWRvbmlhfHx8fA%3D%3D" rel="nofollow">BMC Vol. V</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.vialibri.net/cgi-bin/book_search.php?refer=start&sort=pr&order=desc&hi_lo=hi&cty=US&lang=en&curr=USD&wt=20&fr=s&y=9336&act=search&yearmin=&yearmax=&pricemin=&pricemax=&xpod=on&since=40&sv=fHxUaGUgUHRvbGVtaWVzIEtpbmdzIG9mIEVneXB0fHx8fA%3D%3D" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vialibri.net/cgi-bin/book_search.php?refer=start&sort=pr&order=desc&hi_lo=hi&cty=US&lang=en&curr=USD&wt=20&fr=s&y=9336&act=search&yearmin=&yearmax=&pricemin=&pricemax=&xpod=on&since=40&sv=fHxUaGUgUHRvbGVtaWVzIEtpbmdzIG9mIEVneXB0fHx8fA%3D%3D" rel="nofollow">BMC Vol. VI</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dadams, post: 2623035, member: 82194"]There is a Huge difference between reading a book on a screen and enjoying a book in hand. [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] - you know well I'm a bookish guy and my favorite go to site for searching tomes is [URL='https://www.vialibri.net/']viaLibri[/URL] viaLibri searches multiple databases including abebooks, alibris, biblio, and amazon among multiple others. The best thing about this is that you can exclude the PODs (Print on Demand) copies that have flooded sites like eBay making searches nearly worthless. Also, there are multiple search options available allowing you to fine tune a search. I always enter in the least amount of information to yield the greatest amount of hits and then fine tune from there. I don't know much about BMC so I'm guessing here: [URL='https://www.vialibri.net/cgi-bin/book_search.php?refer=start&sort=pr&order=desc&hi_lo=hi&cty=US&lang=en&curr=USD&wt=20&fr=s&y=8511&act=search&yearmin=&yearmax=&pricemin=&pricemax=&xpod=on&since=40&sv=fGhlYWR8TWFjZWRvbmlhfHx8fA%3D%3D']BMC Vol. V[/URL] [URL='https://www.vialibri.net/cgi-bin/book_search.php?refer=start&sort=pr&order=desc&hi_lo=hi&cty=US&lang=en&curr=USD&wt=20&fr=s&y=9336&act=search&yearmin=&yearmax=&pricemin=&pricemax=&xpod=on&since=40&sv=fHxUaGUgUHRvbGVtaWVzIEtpbmdzIG9mIEVneXB0fHx8fA%3D%3D']BMC Vol. VI[/URL][/QUOTE]
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