I use the winter months to catch up on reading and to do short interval putzing in my [marginally heated] shop to make small improvements and fix things. Yesterday was plane sharpening and tuning day. Today it's colder so I decided to I would learn more about planes and went looking for the Chris Schwarz' Handplane Essentials book on Amazon. Expensive. Next looked at my pretty good local library. Nada. Next used Colorado's state wide library share system. Close to nada.
I've been here before, pretty much any winter. No Lost Arts Press books, very few FWW or Popular WW, my small personal library of maybe 30 books is much more richly endowded than almost the whole state. This seems to be an anomalous condition. Is the woodworking community so small there is no library demand? Are we maybe collectively illiterate?
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