Category: Bleeding Edge
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Ham Shack, Baby
Setting Up & Using Your Own Ham Shack Cebik 1981 They left off “your mother’s basement” from the list of places you could set up a ham shack (first sentence, first image below). Seriously, though, this is a reasonable subject for the community college library that owned it, but it…
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Abacus: My Mistake
The Abacus: A Pocket Computer Dilson 1968 As I was weeding my new collection, the 500s, I came across this book. I instantly thought, “why on earth do we have a book about the abacus?” and put it directly in the weed pile. Then I talked to another staff member…
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Fear the Robot Invasion!
50 Facts About Robots Lambert 1983 A 6 year old regular patron of mine once stated “you can’t have too many robot books”. True enough. However, I think we can safely let this one slide into the great beyond. Aside from the dirty cover and tape repairs, this book is…
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Cool and Cordless!!!
Get the Message Skurzynski 1993 Thanks to the anonymous submitter for this catchy title from her juvenile nonfiction section. I wonder what the message is? How about “this library is SO irrelevant!”
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