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Message no. 1
From: Ethan Court <loki@*****.COM>
Subject: [OT] The care and feeding of BABY...
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:05:34 -0500
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Had an interesting experience with my SR3 recently. Actually, it's not
with my BABY (#942), but with a softcover 1st printing I got my hands on
via Amazon.

I live in Texas and, as everyone in the states knows, we've had a pretty
hot summer. Well, thinking that it was pretty much over (hadn't gotten
over 85 in a couple of days, with lots of rain in the forecast) this
intrepid protagonist left his bookbag in his car for about an hour.

My advice to those who love their book: DON'T DO THAT. Immediately, the
cover came off in my hand, and pages separated from one another. So, here
I am with a softcover with no cover, and the pages all coming out. And I'm
thinking to myself; "Self, [I call myself that when I'm talking to myself]
if only they'd left about another half-inch of gutter, then I'd have myself
a great three-ring bound SR3 reference."

So, the surgeon general of the US would like to add the warning that a
softcover in a car where the ambient temperature is 90 fahrenheit will melt
apart in one hour.

Not for the faint of heart.

-L


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Ethan Court <loki(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Dark Thought Publications and Doom Weapon Systems, Inc.
"Working on Solutions Best Left in the Dark."
Message no. 2
From: Paul Gettle <RunnerPaul@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] The care and feeding of BABY...
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 21:59:51 -0400
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At 05:05 PM 9/24/98 -0500, Ethan wrote:
>So, here
>I am with a softcover with no cover, and the pages all coming out.
And I'm
>thinking to myself; "Self, [I call myself that when I'm talking to
myself]
>if only they'd left about another half-inch of gutter, then I'd have
myself
>a great three-ring bound SR3 reference."

That's odd, I just had an BBB3 three-ring bound, and I found that it
had plenty of gutterspace for the holes. Which version of the
softcover did you have: the $25 first printing or the $30 second
printing? (I don't think the $30 corrected third printing, the one
that says which printing it is on p. 5 has come out yet, has it?)

Anyway, I went to a local printshop, had them drill the holes and
slice the spline off (which they did for free), and then got a
half-inch three ring binder, and one of Chessex's Dragonskin vinyl
bookcovers (the one with the big Droat's Head "S" Shadowrun logo in
silver). It took a bit of cutting down on the binder to get the
Dragonskin cover to fit over it, but the result is wicked cool.

The only reason I had to do this at all was because I'd promised my
co-GM that I'd try to secure a hardback for him, and the people who I
knew who might have access to extra Hardbacks either: 1. Never
answered my email in the first place, or 2. Said they'd forward my bid
to the people they knew who might be willing to part with a hardback,
and have never gotten back to me with any answer.

I was feeling guilty, and decided to get my co-GM a binder-ed BBB3 as
a belated birthday present while I continue my search, and also so he
can at least have some form of the thrid edition to peruse.

BTW: Does anyone out there have an extra Hardback that they'd be
willing to part with for a resonable bid?

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Message no. 3
From: The Great Cornholio <ChemPhD2Be@***.COM>
Subject: Re: [OT] The care and feeding of BABY...
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 12:44:17 EDT
In a message dated 98-09-25 00:03:50 EDT, RunnerPaul@*****.COM writes:

<< That's odd, I just had an BBB3 three-ring bound, and I found that it
had plenty of gutterspace for the holes. Which version of the
softcover did you have: the $25 first printing or the $30 second
printing? (I don't think the $30 corrected third printing, the one
that says which printing it is on p. 5 has come out yet, has it?) >>

FASA books I've had are always falling apart. Even the Battletech books I've
got. So what I did is pre-emptive hole drilling and had them put into a big
ass binder with other sourcebooks. THe big one has SRII, shadowtech, street
sam cat, and RBB. The other one had Tir Tairngire, NAGTNA, Grimoire, CFS, and
NAN1. Once you eliminate the binding problems, you've got a nice big binder
full of info. I've had no problems, and if the binding of SR3 starts to suck,
get it bound. I highly recommend it.

TGC

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