For some years now I have tried to buy a copy of SILVICS OF NORTH
AMERICAN HARDWOODS, Russell Burns and B. Honkala, June 1990. Which was
a US govt printed book sold for $33 in the 1990s but appears to have
gone out of print and put onto computer format to download. Trouble is
that the pictures are not able to be downloaded. Occasionally Amazon
had some sellers for about $200.

Now there is a seller for $2,184.79

Perhaps they made a mistake and meant to say $218.

Anyway, I am soon to go to a library and photocopy the entire book for
a cost of around $30.

It is a shame to see profiteering for books that are of a learning and
understanding nature. And I hate to see Universities and Colleges have
to keep such books under lock and key just because Amazon can ask for
more than $2,000. And that some people may attempt to steal such a book
from libraries.

I hate to see Amazon turning to books as money items rather than books
as items of education. And how that impacts libraries who carry those
books.

So libraries, please be wary and careful of your copy of this book.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies