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Kindle Version of ‘The Anarchist’s Tool Chest’

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“The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” is now available in a completely DRM-free format for Kindle for $16.

This is exactly the same book – same words, photos and drawings – we have been offering since June 2011. But with the ePub version you will be able to search the entire book, write electronic notes in the margins, change the font size and (of course) carry it with you anywhere on any Kindle or Kindle app.

This Kindle version of the book is served by Lost Art Press – not Amazon – so you will be able to easily backup the file and freely move it among your electronic devices.

Unlike many electronic book files, we chose to make ours without DRM – the acronym for “digital rights management.” Many Kindle files with DRM are a pain to use. You might be restricted from copying the file for backup, or even simply copying and pasting passages from the book.

Frankly, DRM doesn’t jibe well with the philosophy of the book, the author or Lost Art Press.

Because you will download the Kindle version from us and not Amazon, you have to move it onto your Kindle manually. This is an easy process (even easier than adding a book to the iPad). Amazon offers this tutorial:

Transfer Files to your Kindle via USB

To purchase this electronic book, simply add it to your shopping cart. After you check out you will immediately be given the link to download it. If you are an international customer, the process is different. Send $16 U.S. to john@lostartpress.com via PayPal and we will send you the link manually.

Click here to visit our store and order the Kindle version.

— Christopher Schwarz

If it’s Too Expensive, Click Here

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OK, we know that “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” is an expensive book when compared to literature by Rachel Ray, Stephen King and L. Ron Hubbard. But it is quite expensive to manufacture a book in the United States compared to China – about four times as much.

Plus, I need to keep my kids eating the panda-flavored ramen they love so well.

So some people can’t afford the hardback version of the book. That’s OK. We have an ePub version for $16 – but you have to have an expensive reader to enjoy that version.

If you can’t afford either, then it’s time to head over to James Maichel’s new blog, the “Woodworking Scroll.”

To kick off his blog, he’s written an entry about “The Anarchist’s Tool Chest” and is giving away a copy of the book to one of the people who comments on the post.

And because we have a few returned copies of the book sitting in my basement, we are willing – thrilled! – to say we will match his offer. So two people will get copies of the book.

Also, for your information, James sent me a series of questions and asked if I would answer them, from the prospect of me opening a woodworking school to what sort of pizza I like. Those answers are here.

In any case, check out James’s blog here and enter to receive a copy of the book.

— Christopher Schwarz

Windows of the Mind

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“A society that can place no reliance on the men who underpin it, who design, build and maintain its houses, railroads, aircraft, bridges, its vast engineering projects, will become an unstable society, insecure and heading for disruption.

“And this is the danger of a purely materialistic world.”

— Charles Hayward, “Chips from the Chisel,” The Woodworker, June 1958

The Anarchist’s Sawbench Box Chest Storage Device

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My first shop was on the back porch – 6’ x 8’ of sloping, rotting, dead opossum-smelling space. So I am sympathetic to anyone who has a small shop.

Blogger Brander “Badger” Roullett has a petite shop and a plus-sized storage problem. He needed a sawbench and he needed someplace to store his saws. What he came up with was a clever adaptation of the classic six-board chest.

These sorts of chests come in all sizes – I recently saw a sawbench-sized one at the Museum of Early Southern Decorate Arts. So Badger’s chest “looks” right to my eye.

And it’s all assembled with nails, so Adam Cherubini is somewhere smiling.

Check out Badger’s post on how he built the chest, along with step photos at Badger Woodworks.

— Christopher Schwarz