Tomorrow Log

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The #1 Science Fiction Trade Paperback in America, March 2003! -Locus Magazine Meanwhile, on another side of the universe... Freelance thief Gem ser'Edreth makes the calculated mistake of turning down a commission from the local crime boss. Gem's hidden past proves an unexpected liability as his plans to leave the planet go catastrophically awry. Suddenly embroiled in interplanetary politics, and a potential interstellar war, in possession of a Trident, a mysterious, ancient object of power and an unwanted cousin, Gem discovers that the Trident may hold the key to his salvation-or his undoing.

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This is the next great series by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller!.......2006-07-29

No, The Tomorrow Log isn't set in the Liaden Universe. But don't let that stop you from mining the riches you'll find in this book. The Tomorrow Log is replete with relentless excitement, derring-do exploits, mystical elements, an understated romance, and the authors' trademark diverse socio/cultural touches.

Gem ser'Edreth is an electronics ace by nature and an independent thief by trade. He has very few ties to anyone and prefers to exist on the fringes of civilization, under the radar of the law. His preferred companions are his tiny robotic spider constructs, which are invaluable in reconnoitering and infiltrating many potential "jobs."

Gem's status quo changes when the beautiful and lethal Corbinye Faztherot - scout, mediator, and assassin for the GenerationShip Gardenspot - shows up and claims kinship with Gem (they're cousins) and tells him that he is the long-lost Captain predicted in the Tomorrow Log to steer the Gardenspot past its greatest peril and then onward to bigger and better things for Ship and Crew. But Gem dismisses her, an act which he also repeats time and again with Lady Belaconto, a chieftain of the planetary crime syndicate, who wants to commission Gem into stealing a legendary artifact in order to control the trade of a rare drug.

The tension is ratcheted up when Belaconto sniffs out Gem's familial ties with Corbinye and has her kidnapped and held as hostage until Gem undertakes and completes her commission. Little does Gem realize that the theft of the mystical Bindalche Trident will catapult him and Corbinye into a rousing, high-stakes adventure foretold by a prophecy centuries past.

This is the first entry in the Gem ser'Edreth series. The upcoming sequel is titled Web of the Trident, which hopefully will be out soon (the authors' blog says maybe around April/May 2007?). As usual, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller make for a wonderful, highly entertaining read. I was totally engrossed in The Tomorrow Log and finished it in one sitting. This book found me marvelling once again at the authors' talent for intricate world-building. Given time, Gem's universe might prove to be as entrancing as the Liaden Universe. Gem and Corbinye turn out to be as captivating, resourceful and heroic as Val Con and Miri. They certainly ingratiate themselves with the reader. Gem's cute techno-spiders make good supporting players, as Lee & Miller invest them with almost human characteristics. The valiant golden-eyed Spider Number Fifteen may well be my favorite secondary character.

This is a very promising start to what hopefully will be a memorable series. It's similar to the Liaden Universe in terms of its space opera scope and sensibilities. But at this juncture, The Tomorrow Log doesn't resonate as well with the fans. But, give it time...Anyways, four and a half stars.

loved it & glad there is to be more.......2006-04-01

I just now finished Tomorrow Log. It was good to once again read intelligent, plausible and human SF (of which there is all too little). I am also very glad to have just found out that there is an upcoming sequel to this one, which I hope will be available soon, because a lot could happen next, and I want to know what that is ASAP!

so-so.......2005-07-30

THe book was a little too long even though its short. I read it, but did not really enjoy it. I am hoping when I re-read it in a couple of months I will find it more interesting.

Not Liaden, but satisfying nonetheless.......2005-07-28

I recommend the authors' Liaden series; most characters are well developed and interesting. I bought Tomorrow Log assuming it was a new Liaden installment, and was disappointed to find this was not set in that universe. Nevertheless, the first few pages grabbed me, and I stayed up way too late because I couldn't put the book down. Thanks, Lee & Miller!

W-O-W-! This is not one to miss!.......2004-12-03

Gem ser'Edreth is a wizard with electronics and a freelance thief. He is a loner by choice. The only help he wants is that given to him by the small robot spiders he creates. These little fellows help him enter computers via cracks to take it over or steal data, help check for traps, pick locks, even crawl into rooms and spy.

Lady Saxony Belaconto is a planetary crime boss. She wants an ancient object, a Trident, that would allow her to control the hesernym trade. She seeks Gem out with a commission to steal it. Of course, he refuses. Being a loner no one has any hold over him. Persistent, the crime boss waits and watches. Then she learns Gem has a cousin.

Corbinye Faztherot, if you ask the people who live on land "Grounders", is an assassin. If you ask the people who live on ships "Worldwalkers", she is a seeker. Her duty is to bring back the ship's Captain-to-be so that his Crew (A.K.A. family) may know him and he may be about the business for which he was foretold in "The Tomorrow Log".

Gem suddenly finds himself embroiled in interplanetary politics, a potential interstellar war, a ship filled with an unwanted Crew, and in possession of an ancient object of power and its Witness. Things will never be the same.

***** W-O-W-! When authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller team up marvelous things happen! This is one of those rare books that hook the reader, not in the first chapter or on the first page, but in the first sentence which contains only nine words. I eagerly await the next in this fabulous series! *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.

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Log Book by C. Dale Nouse
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The International Marine Log Book
C. Dale Nouse
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0070482373

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If you've never experienced the tension of failed equipment aboard or had to explain to guests why there is no more fresh water or panicked when thick fog closed in just after you had forgotten to make note of the last two buoys, you probably don't need to keep a log. But for those more human, it's not a bad idea.

Developed and refined endlessly over three decades by longtime cruiser Dale Nouse, The International Marine Log Book is flexible enough to allow to record anything from bare piloting details to names and anecdotes that are valuable and/or enjoyable to recall. It will encourage good piloting, train you to be a careful observer of weather, stimulate you to run through a vital maintenance checklist, and serve as a compendium of interesting information about your boat.

The International Marine Log Book--complete, compact, and durable--will make all others obsolete. Here is a legal record of your boat's cruising history; vital navigational aid; concise and accurate weather-forecasting system; daily checklist of your boat's mechanical systems; permanent record of your boat's important data; journal of your happy times afloat.

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Log Book by C. Dale Nouse.......2000-01-15

I've used this log book on an extended cruise down the east coast from New York to Florida and found it very well organized. The daily pages have room for all the information I record, plus comments and maintenance. The hard bound two page per day format works well, separating out navigation info from general comments. There is a daily checklist that makes sense. The binding has withstood weather that has almost destroyed other logs I have used. I usually keep it closed when not making entries which keeps the pages from getting soaked or blowing around. Finally, I really like that it has a lot of pages for daily entries. Some of the other logs I've used had many pages of extraneous info better left to navigation texts, and ran out of daily pages too soon.

Returned.......1999-07-13

Totally unacceptable----does not have the plastic ring binder that allowed the book to remain open and flat unlike original---not for serious cruisers.

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Finally! It all adds up. Best Titanic analysis so far.
Controversal, maybe, but making sense - absolutely
The best book on the titanic disaster
Excellent technical analysis
A CRACKING GOOD READ

The Last Log of the Titanic
David G. Brown
Manufacturer: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
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ASIN: 0071364471

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Nearly nine decades after the event, the sinking of the Titanic continues to command more attention than any other twentieth-century catatrophe. Yet most of what is commonly believed about that fateful night in 1912 is, at best, a body of myth and legend nurtured by the ship's owners and surviving officers and kept alive by generations of authors and moviemakers. That, at least, is the thesis presented in this compellingly bold, thoroughly plausible contrarian reconstruction of the last hours of the pride of the White Star Line.

The new but no-less harrowing Titanic story that Captain David G. Brown unfolds is one involving a tragic chain of errors on the part of the well-meaning crew, the pernicious influence of the ship's haughty owner, who was aboard for the maiden trip, and a fatal overconfidence in the infallibility of early twentieth-century technology. Among the most startling facts to emerge are that the Titanic did not collide with an iceberg but instead ran aground on a submerged ice shelf, resulting in damage not to the ship's sides but to the bottom of her hull. First Officer Murdoch never gave the infamous CRASH STOP ("reverse engines") order; rather, he ordered ALL STOP, allowing him to execute a nearly successful S-curve maneuver around the berg. The iceberg did not materialize unheralded from an ice-free sea; the Titanic was likely steaming at 22 1/2 knots through scattered ice, with no extra lookouts posted, for two hours or more before the fatal encounter. Visibility was not poor that night, and the only signs of haze or distortion were those produced by the ice field itself as the Titanic approached. Most startling of all, however, is evidence that the ship might have stayed afloat long enough to permit the rescue of all passengers and crew if Captain Smith, at the behest of his employer, Bruce Ismay, had not given the order to resume steaming.

Offering a radically new interpretation of the facts surrounding the most famous shipwreck in history, The Last Log of the Titanic is certain to ignite a storm of controversy.

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In the vast ocean of books written on the topic, The Last Log of the Titanic stands apart for one simple reason: it's the only one to approach the disaster from a professional mariner's point of view.

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Finally! It all adds up. Best Titanic analysis so far........2006-09-14

This book is essential reading for anyone seeking the truth about the Titanic.

We recently delved into Titanic literature, starting with the testimony from the stateside investigation. That led to a quest for more information because there were so many unanswered questions. After reading quite a few books, The Last Log of the Titanic finally arrived in the mail. And what a wonderful book!!!

David G. Brown carefully and exactly solves the mysteries involved in how and why the Titanic sank. It is all explained with a knowledge of navigation and engineering.

Read this book with an open mind and an attention to details. If you throw out all your pre-conceived notions from other books, the films, the TV specials etc., and really read what Brown is telling you, you cannot possibly have any doubts about what happened.

The only controversy caused by this book will be brought on by those who will defend their earlier positions on the foundering of this floating hotel.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Controversal, maybe, but making sense - absolutely.......2006-09-05

I admit that the Titanic movie of 1997 made a big change in my Titanic collecting - mainly before that time I had only about 5 books. One of the books I had was an original from 1912 that was produced due to the fact that there was no radio, Internet or CNN to blast the news into your daily lives. Only the newspapers carried the story and people wanted to know more.

Needless to say, the movie got a lot of people interested in the subject (as it always seems to do whenever a new movie gets produced) Due to this interest all sorts of books got re-published and published for the first time. I started to collect and read and read and read.

I was always interested in the many points of debate that continue on and on, but this book seemed to make so much sense because it aligned with those things that I had read and had questions about but that never really got answered.

There were several reports of iceberg sightings, before the ship hit. There was a report that the alarm bell was rung three times, not three sounds but three different times for three different icebergs. Why did Murdock keep going when they entered the ice field? All the other reasons didn't quite hold up. This author gives forth a logical answer.

The idea that the iceberg grazed along the side of the ship didn't really seem to answer how the ship could go down so fast, the author of this book explains how the ship could have hit. Not only does his explanation make sense but it aligns with the other eye witness accounts of that night.

The list goes on. I can only say that it is well worth the read, and I currently have 58 Titanic related books and have talked and talked to other historians who have their theories.

This is a really good book.

Chris, Founder, McVitamins

The best book on the titanic disaster.......2006-02-26

I have watched movies and read several books about the Titanic disaster; but, without doubt this is the very, very best I've seen. This book explains in great detail, how things happened. It is written in an easy to read style. It presents numerous references and direct quotes throughout the book, as well as written testimony presented at the official enquires, so it is clearly not simply the author's spectulation. This was one book I could not put down. It answers important questions, such as "Did the nearby frieghter Californian, see Titanic's distress signals; and, if so, why didn't they come to aid the striken liner?", "Were the engines placed in "FULL ASTERN" immediatley when the iceberg was sighted?", "Why were some of the lifeboats only half filled with passengers?", "Would it have been better if the Titanic hit the iceberg head-on instead of side-swiping it?" and "Was the Titanic excessively (and carelessly) speeding to New York in attempt to set a record?" Every page was a pleasure! I just cannot give it enough praise. You won't be sorry if you buy this book.

Excellent technical analysis.......2004-09-21

This is a really good book, but not for Titanic novices (read "A Night to Remember" and its sequal for that). It's a shame the book has such a speculative and rather silly title because it may put-off some of it's intended readership - Titanic buffs.

Refreshingly, rather than rehashing tired old stories, Brown keeps his book narrow and focussed. Drawing from the original statements made for both the American and British official enquiries and his own expertise in ship handling and dynamics, he manages to make a radical yet convincing arguments.

Like some of the other reviewers here, I too had trouble with some of the conclusions. Swerving around icebergs at 21+ knots in an unstabilised hull would have surely caused the odd spilt drink and more to observant passengers. Likewise, I believe the hull did split near the surface, but not on it. But in the context of the book's major conclusions, this is just minor nit-picking!

Highly recommended - crackpot theories on the Titanic sinking are so common it is a real pleasure to find original ideas that are so convincing.

A CRACKING GOOD READ.......2004-02-19

I first read this book in 2000 and found it to be one of the more plausible explanations of the damage suffered by TITANIC when she hit the berg, as well as what happened afterward. Captain Brown has brought what is so lacking in many TITANIC books into LAST LOG OF THE TITANIC--actual shiphandling experience.

Captain Brown had also produced an eminently readable text, one which I think most people will have little trouble understanding.

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Both front and back covers of the Large Ship's Log Book are laminated with heavy plastic, to prevent water damage. Each log sheet has column headings for all the pertinent information you will need. This book is designed to help you keep accurate records of the ship board events. One log sheet is printed on each side of quality paper stock. The entire book is bound, to lay flat on any surface.

The Large Ship's Log Book, contains 150-Ship's Log sheets, 4-Fuel Record sheets, 6-Ship's Maintenance sheets and 10-Engine Maintenance sheets, 2-Locker Contents list, 2-Periodic Maintenance list, 1-Important Ship's Facts lists, 1-Notes Sheet. 176 Printed Pages. ISBN 1-892216-08-6

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The Lilibet Logs: Restoring a Classic Wooden Boat
Jack Becker
Manufacturer: Sheridan House
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ASIN: 1574092383

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The Lilibet Logs tells the story of a two-year restoration project on a classic wooden sailing boat. Starting with a brief background check on Jack’s boating experience, continuing with the process of choosing and buying the boat, moving it across country, finding suitable work space, then, through the restoration work itself, this story of learning-while-doing, culminates in the reality that Jack has never actually sailed before. Launching Lilibet and learning to handle her on lake Minnetonka, where she is the biggest and oldest sailboat, closes the circle on the story of The Lilibet Logs. The book is spiced with the writer’s unique observations about the process, and the people and the places involved.

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Star of India: The log of an iron ship
Jerry MacMullen
Manufacturer: Howell-North
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0831070277

Euterpe: Diaries, Letters & Logs of the Star of India As a British Emigrant Ship

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Euterpe: Diaries, Letters & Logs of the Star of India As a British Emigrant Ship

Manufacturer: Maritime Museum Assn of
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Star Trek Logs One and Two (Star Trek the Animated Series)

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Star Trek Logs One and Two (Star Trek the Animated Series)
Alan Dean Foster
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0345495810
Release Date: 2006-09-05

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“SPACE. THE FINAL FRONTIER . . . These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise™.” Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Star Trek® with the original mission logs chronicling some of the crew’s most bizarre missions and strangest encounters with alien races across the galaxy . . . where no man has gone before™.

Beyond the Farthest Star
Behind a negative star, the Enterprise finds some malevolent company: an alien of unimaginable power beams aboard–to destroy the crew and hijack the ship for its own deadly purpose.

Yesteryear
Spock returns from a time-travel research project to find that no one on the Enterprise recognizes him. Now he must go back through the Time Gate to his Vulcan childhood–to save the life of the child he was.

One of Our Planets Is Missing
A huge cosmic cloud that eats celestial objects has already consumed one planet and is on its way to another, where 82 million people will die. And Kirk and his crew find themselves in its voracious path.

The Survivor
The crew rejoices when a drifting, damaged spaceship yields Carter Winston, the famous philanthropist missing and presumed dead. But Carter is not all that he seems.

The Lorelei Signal
When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to a mysterious planet, they discover an exotic race of enchantingly beautiful women who seem ready to fulfill every fantasy–but a far deadlier fate awaits the Enterprise crew.

The Infinite Vulcan
Keniclius 5, a 24-foot-tall clone of a demented scientist, kidnaps Spock to clone him into immortality. Unfortunately, to achieve this transformation, the real Spock must die . . .

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Boat Log & Record
Marlin Bree
Manufacturer: Marlor Press
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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This carefully structured log book and organizer is designed for skippers and boaters on day sails, weekend jaunts, or week-long cruises. Leisure boat owners can maintain detailed permanent records of essential information about their vessels, including insurance policies, yearly upkeep, and troubleshooting. Each voyage can be logged, as the book has space to record up to 50 cruises. Also included is an equipment and maintenance record, a purchasing organizer, crew roster, and a commissioning checklist.

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Ship's Log
Henry Beard , and Roy McKie
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
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A sidesplitting and thoroughly functional record book for every sailor worth his salt. 88,000 copies in print. Beard & McKie lexicons have over 2.3 million copies in print.

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Record albums are more than records; they include covers and liner notes, catalogs, magazines, and advertisements. In this fascinating study of the materials that surround LPs and CDs, Colin Symes undertakes a cultural history of the record, looking specifically at the way the phonograph helped democratize classical music by enabling it to be heard at home, away from the concert hall. Symes argues that the listening habits associated with classical records and recording were produced and naturalized through a magazine culture, which conveyed the idea that collecting and listening to records were legitimate pastimes for the general public. The first chapter lays out a textual theory of the phonograph and compact disc, while subsequent chapters look critically and historically at the different components of the recording process: covers and cover notes, the rhetoric of the record review, the influence of recording on performance, the domestication of the concert hall, advertising in the record industry, and even the architecture of record shops. Symes's path-breaking history will engage anyone with an interest in classical music and recording.

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false advertising.......2006-05-12

I expected this book to be what its subtitle says it is, "A material history of classical recording." I looked forward to reading a history of the technological and social development of classical music recording, and to an exploration of the relationship between classical music performance and classical music recording.

Rather than the history it purports to be, this book is instead an historical-theoretical study of the "discourses" surrounding classical music recordings, including record magazines, advertisements, reviews, record covers, and liner notes. Only two chapters discuss the technological development of recording, and they barely address the interaction of performance and recording. Instead, the majority of the book is about "the myriad words written about the phonograph that made this most phonocentric of instruments progressively more logocentric." If I wanted to read watered-down Derrida, I would just read Derrida.

If you're interested in the actual history of recording, stay away from this book. I'm sorry that I wasted my money on it.

An excellent guide to record creation and marketing.......2005-10-24

This remarkable book, more than any other I have read in recent years, explains (almost) fully the complex socio-musico-literary mechanisms surrounding the legacy and potential future of the classical recording industry. In painstaking detail, Mr. Symes delineates its progression from functional transcriber to expensive toy to disseminator of manifold musical treasures, all the while keeping his sharp eye fixed on the complex BUSINESS of the record industry: its visual, literary, marketing and post-edit presentation. By chronicling the growth of an industry always geared towards the well-educated and wealthy, he explains why and how they have managed to keep it the province of their class; why and how they welcomed "new converts" to the music from the working classes, then pulled back when they could no longer exercise their intellectual and physical control of the industry; why and how they begrudgingly included jazz in the pages of their journals, then omitted it when they felt their readership was becoming unruly; and why musicians still object to recordings as a presentation of music as opposed to live concerts.

Granted, there are a few gaps in his narrative. As someone who apparently (to judge from his comments or lack of them) does not particularly understand jazz, though he does admit its influence on the growing cadre of 20th-century composers, he makes no distinction (neither did the original editors of The Gramophone) between real jazz and the pseudo-jazz that passed as jazz in popular culture. One example: the Black Swan "jazz" records that Darius Milhaud bought and listened to as the inspiration for his "Creation du Monde," mentioned by Mr. Symes. These were not real jazz records at all, but white pseudo-jazz-pop dance music. In fact, I have one of them on CD, in fact the principal one. It is "Aunt Hagar's Children's Blues" by "Ladd's Black Aces." Milhaud thought that this was an authentic Black jazz group. In point of fact, it was a white band, an offshoot of Sam Lanin's groups-and the pianist is none other than Jimmy Durante! Another gap is his constant de-emphasis of operatic records, mentioned (I feel) almost begrudgingly. Yet he understands very well how the marketing techniques that surrounded Caruso and Farrar, amplified and more sophisticated, were the same ones used to promote artists in the future. He also touches on the archaic, and quite comical, "demonstration records" of the acoustic era that were supposed to be so "lifelike," as a precursor to similar (albeit more honest) promotions of the 1950s and `60s.

In only two respects do I feel that Mr. Symes left us wanting. One is that he just barely touches on a fact mentioned by Yehudi Menuhin, that recordings played a great role in the improvement of orchestral playing in the last century. Audiences no longer "put up" with playing as rough or imperfect as that heard from the LSO under Beecham or the NBC under Toscanini. Conductors like Toscanini (with the NY Phil), Szell, Reiner, Steinberg, Walter, Karajan, Haitink, even Ormandy, ushered in an era of un-sloppy playing here and abroad that raised orchestral playing to a phenomenal level that would have been considered impossible, except by the very finest orchestras in the world (Berlin, Vienna), 40 years earlier. Second is that he glosses over the dichotomy that performing musicians often damned recordings as artificial canned music while having no such objections to broadcasts. Considering that from the late 1960s onward there has been virtually no sonic difference between the two-improved recording techniques eliminated the need for artificially boosting sections or soft passages so that they could be heard on either medium-the objection to "canned music" per se falls flat.

Nevertheless, this is an important musical and social document which should be read by anyone with an interest in the recorded medium. Mr. Symes covers the gamut, from audiophiles to specialty collectors to marketing techniques, in a way unparalleled in my experience. Highly recommended.

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