[pct-l] digital wilderness press guides

[David Money Harris]

The WP guides aren't available in digital form, but I sliced the spine 
off mine, scanned them into PDF on a big autofeed machine, ran the PDF 
through optical character recognition, and downloaded the result into my 
iphone where I use Acrobat Reader.  This gives me all three books in 
searchable digital form, albeit with a bunch of zooming in and out.

It was a bit of a hassle, but saves the weight.  I did the same with 
Yogi's guide and I downloaded the Halfmile maps so I'll have the whole 
trail in my phone at all times.  I'll still carry the maps for the 
current section because the hard copy is more convenient to read.

Happy hiking,

DMoney

On 2/22/2012 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
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> From: Heather Kelly<heathulmer at gmail.com>
> Subject: [pct-l] digital Wilderness Press PCT books ideas?
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> Greetings eager hikers,
>
> I was thinking an alternative to cutting up the paper version of the
> Wilderness Press PCT Guides would be finding a PDF version or perhaps
> downloading it on to a Kindle or other.
>
> In my brief amount of research I haven't been able to find such a
> resource and didn't see the titles available on Kindle Books. Any
> advice or smarts from others?
>
> On an interesting side note, if you type "PCT" in to the Amazon
> e-books Search, one of the first 6 titles to pop up is "Hemmorrhoids:
> the solution".
>
> My feet are tingling,
>
> Updog