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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Downtym)
Subject: Shadowrun CD (and piracy) (and life length of books)
Date: Tue Feb 26 23:05:04 2002
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ice Heart wrote:

> Transporting SR books is even harder on them than it was on my AD&D
> harcovers.

You're not kidding about that. After only 2 years, my SR3 and MiTS
have both fallen apart. 8-(

My SR3 is now in a binder and I'm thinking about doing the same to my
quickly degrading MiTS.

Downtym |
Email: gte138j@*****.gatech.edu | Post no bills
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Derek Hyde)
Subject: Shadowrun CD (and piracy) (and life length of books)
Date: Tue Feb 26 23:35:01 2002
> My SR3 is now in a binder and I'm thinking about doing the same to my
> quickly degrading MiTS.

Just as a suggestion, if you can go to someplace like kinkos they can
coil bind the book for you with a plastic coil and it'll only cost you
about $5 and it's much easier to transport....I'm actually doing that to
most of my books before they get the chance to break down because it
make it a lot easier to use while actually playing and as a reference
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Mark M. Smith)
Subject: Shadowrun CD (and piracy) (and life length of books)
Date: Wed Feb 27 03:20:01 2002
At 2/26/02 10:27 PM, you wrote:
> > My SR3 is now in a binder and I'm thinking about doing the same to my
> > quickly degrading MiTS.
>
>Just as a suggestion, if you can go to someplace like kinkos they can
>coil bind the book for you with a plastic coil and it'll only cost you
>about $5 and it's much easier to transport....

The main feature of this seems to be the plastic cover protector. A quick
comparison between SR3 and SR2 core rules reveals that the main problem is
a much thinner cover. It's significantly more flexible and prone to
bending, warping, folding, creasing and the like while the previous cover
was a more standard thick paperstock. I suspect that such a change was done
by FASA as they started to lose money in an attempt to cut costs.


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Mark M. Smith
belgand@**************.com

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Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Robert Blackberg)
Subject: Shadowrun CD (and piracy) (and life length of books)
Date: Wed Feb 27 07:40:01 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark M. Smith" <belgand@**************.com>
> At 2/26/02 10:27 PM, you wrote:
> > > My SR3 is now in a binder and I'm thinking about doing the
same to my
> > > quickly degrading MiTS.
> >
> >Just as a suggestion, if you can go to someplace like kinkos they
can
> >coil bind the book for you with a plastic coil and it'll only
cost you
> >about $5 and it's much easier to transport....
>
> The main feature of this seems to be the plastic cover protector.
A quick
> comparison between SR3 and SR2 core rules reveals that the main
problem is
> a much thinner cover. It's significantly more flexible and prone
to
> bending, warping, folding, creasing and the like while the
previous cover
> was a more standard thick paperstock. I suspect that such a change
was done
> by FASA as they started to lose money in an attempt to cut costs.

Get Kinkos to add the clear plastic front cover and black plastic
back cover when you get that coil binding. It'll add even more
durability to your books.

Robert (no cool tagline, just a plain line__________________)

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