Books

[hosscomp]

I bought a couple of books (hard copy) by AS and found them to be excellent. Of course each of his books refers you to one or more of his other books for more details, so as soon as I started reading "Coloring Leather" I was referred to a couple of other books, and being in a hurry and wanting to save some money I bought the eBook version from Tandy's Leathercraft Library. One was "How to Color Leather." This was a surprise because that's why I bought "Coloring Leather," to learn how to color leather. The other one I bought was "How to Carve Leather," which I was referred to from "the Art of Making Leather Cases."

The "How To Color" e-book was very easy to read with Adobe Reader and Adobe Digital Edition, but "How to Carve Leather" was terrible. I even printed out a copy but the detailed instruction in the captions were too small for reading. And, yes, I did print it landscaped, as it is laid out. I then tried using custom fit in Adobe Digital to blow it up, and could finally read it by laboriously panning around to different parts of the page. But even then it seems that they tried to place too much in too small a space to be very useful. It looks more like a pattern book than a how-to book. I would rather see large clear instructions on a few patterns than skimpy instructions on many patterns.

Finally, my question is: If you have a hard copy of "How To Carve Leather," is it readable? Is it printed on larger than letter size paper? Do you find it useful or do you have some of the same problems I have with it?

[ClayB]

The original How to Carve Leather book was printed in a much larger size. It's probably 20-24 inches long. Several of Stohlman's books were printed in this format, his holster book, the inverted carving book. In their original size they are very readable and full of useful information.

[hosscomp]

Thanks, ClayB.

I suspected that. Before buying any more e-books I will try to be sure it will fit on letter sized paper.

[radar67]

You can take the file down to Office Depot of similar and have it printed to the origional size fairly reasonably. The Tandy instructions say you can have them printed for your personal use.

[hosscomp]

You can take the file down to Office Depot of similar and have it printed to the origional size fairly reasonably. The Tandy instructions say you can have them printed for your personal use.

Thanks. I read that also. If it cost around $5 it may be worth it.