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   Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 05:37:02 JST Jonathan Corbet
   I was digging through my bookshelves when I stumbled across this book, untouched for years.
   
   I picked up Anybody's Bike Book sometime around the mid 1970s, after having discovered the freedom that a good bike gives to a kid who needs to move around in northern Wyoming. It taught me that there was nothing in my bike that I couldn't fix myself — an empowering lesson to learn. With a mixture of plain language, clear descriptions, and sharp humor, it was perhaps my first example of what technical documentation can be.
   
   So, a belated "thank you" to Tom Cuthbertson for this outstanding book; there is no doubt it had a strong influence on all the words I have inflicted on the world.
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     murph :fedora: :amiga: (murph@hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 09:54:06 JST murph :fedora: :amiga:

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     @corbet I have a copy of that around somewhere.