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A normally long book on almost any subject is printed really
small to save on costs, and one of those little fresnel
magnifying-glass-bookmarks (5 cent cost?) is included so you
can read it.
Sun Friendly Book
http://www.halfbake...n_20friendly_20book
uno problema [thumbwax, Sep 22 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
Micromaps
http://www.minimap.co.uk/
How a long and wide subject is printed really small and viewed with a lens. [snagger, Sep 22 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Can you read that outdoors on a sunny day? |
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Yeh, if you're no good at flaming here, you can go outside and practice on ants in your garden. |
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Don't the little map systems (see link) bake this? It might be a specialised version, it might (I think) use a 'real' lens not a fresnel, but the essential idea is there. |
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[moments later] Duh - just realised, I have actually got the compact edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. This is printed with four original pages on each page (getting the original 26 or so volumes into just two). And it comes with a Bausch & Lomb magnifier in a little drawer. |
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I thought this idea was going to be about recycled accounting ouput. |
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Another approach: I have Hitchcock and Cronquist's "Flora of the Pacific Northwest" which is a condensation of a 5-volume botany, said condensation being accomplished in part by wholesale abbreviation of words: "Lvs not linear and connate or fls > 1 per fl st; corolla often gamopet." This could be done with something like "Finnegan's Wake" or the Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare and save all sorts of space. |
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