I own this book and would love to read it, but, while informative, I find the way the text is laid out to be so distracting, I can barely read more than a page or 2 at a time. Is there anywhere I can get an eBook copy or something that's more readable? I would gladly pay for such an edition, so it's not like I'm trying to get out of spending a couple bucks on the book. Thanks!
Guess I'm missing something - I have the second edition and have no problems? Some people think White is nuts, but that's another issue. I have found a number of useful facts and techniques, and my "bucket list" includes treating an AU 1913 Barber half dollar with a rubber-band stain using his methods. Maybe I'll get around to it in 2015.
Oh, I see. That's because some ding-dong editor thought the book looked "better" with justified right-hand margins. In turn, that might have been necessary with all the chemical formulas sprinkled here and there. I thought you were referring to content and not format. But there's one MUCH worse, if such a thing is possible: Maury's 2009 French stamp catalog, printed (and I use the term very loosely) in Greece, LOL LOL LOL.
Buy it, scan it to pdf on a GOOD photo copier and then scan the pdfs to word (OCR). Then you have to go through it line by line to proof read the conversion. Which sort of defeats the purpose. How about contacting the author and asking if he will sell you a copy of the source file(s)...
