£400 for a Hill and a Dale?

[dd2u]

That is the starting price for a complete set of CLPGS journals. Mostly collected by George Frow and now sold by Dave Cooper.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Phonograph-Gr ... 0596333538

It will be interesting to see if anyone is tempted at this price.

[epigramophone]

Issues 1 to 220 are available direct from the CLPGS in CDr PDF format on a single disc for £60 including postage.

[Steve]

I don't like discs or reading from screens via pdf files. I'd much much rather have a real book in front of me. Call me old fashioned but....... well, go on then!

[2Bdecided]

I like both, but neither price appeals to me!

I have a slight preference for reading from a real piece of paper, but that is outweighed by the ability to easily search through a well scanned and correctly OCR'd PDF - never mind the physical size and weight issues with several volumes of the real thing.

I've even used on-line searches and PDF indexes to help me find what I was looking for in the physical copies of magazines or books that I already own. Maybe that's just my disorganisation or bad memory!

epigramophone, is the £60 CLPGS CD OCR'd, indexed, and searchable as plain text? Are the scans decent quality? That's another thing that drives me back to physical copies: badly scanned diagrams and photos.

I'd rather have the PDF, if it's been done very well. There is the joy of owning the original artefact (and I think that's more relevant to 1920s gramophones magazines than 1980s society magazines), but I still remember my wife's face when I came home with a ¼ century run of The Gramophone Magazine. A CD ROM, or even a download, could have entered the house with far less disaprroval!

Cheers,
David.

P.S. Yes, I know The Gramophone Magazine is available on line, and I've even tried a brief subscription. The OCR is fairly unreliable, the pages are sometimes cropped, and the covers are mostly missing. Still, it's a reasonable source for the issues I don't have, but I don't want to subscribe to it for too long. It would soon enough cost more than buying all the physical copies!

EDIT: Look what Google found!
http://www.clpgs.org.uk/pdf%20files/Hil ... %20PDF.pdf
The complete index for Hill and Dale news, in PDF form, freely available from the CLPGS website. That's jolly decent of them!

[epigramophone]

As you have discovered, there is an index, but as I do not have a copy of the CD I cannot comment on the production quality.

If it is up to the standard of the CLPGS Reference Series discs, it should be good.

I too would prefer to own the original magazines, although not at £400, but my bookshelves are already overflowing. I can still remember my wife's face when I bought a large number of "Sound Wave" magazines at auction.......

[2Bdecided]

Didn't sell.