Pocket Ref by Thomas J. Glover Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Pocket Ref
Book Review: A piece of the Internet in your pocket...
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is like having a piece of the Internet in your pocket. Anyone from the weekend warrior to the hardcore Mechanical Engineer to even a Chemist will appreciate the information in this book. It also makes for excellent toliet reading :)Book Review: Amazing Book!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
If you can't carry around a lap-top with internet service, then this little book is for you. It has everything that you have ever forgotten and more. From math formulas, to a chili hotness
table, from long distant phone prefixes, to the size and mass of Jupiter. Simply, a reference book for any occasion and everyone.
Book Review: Amazing ref!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Its got flipping EVERYTHING!!! The pages are pretty thin almost like tracing paper but with all the info packed in it and being pocket size its def worth ten bucks. Not really a book to take in the field but at home on a desk all the information you need is in itBook Review: Amazing reference for work, personal and trivia use!
Summary: 5 Stars
I randomly picked this book up from the gift table at Restoration Hardware. After thumbing through it, it definitely seemed worth the money. No that I've had it for a while, it's paid for itself many times over. As a software engineer, the ASCII tables get the most use. Of course, whenever I whip this book out at work, everyone around ends up looking through it and heading straight to Amazon with the ISBN.
For personal use, the "General Use" and "First Aid" sections are handy. Some of the random facts in here can be pretty entertaining. Things you've never even thought about are broken down in this book. Various mathematical equations are available at your fingertips. There's a lot of random information as well as a lot of truly helpful facts.
I know that this review has a somewhat wandering tone to it, but it's so hard to just categorize everything that this book contains. Let's put it this way, the only thing that I have expected to find in the book that wasn't there so far was a calculation to find the great circle distance on the Earth between two latitude/longitude points. Once I did track down the equation online, I realized that, with the depth needed to calculate it, it's no surprise that it was overlooked. Everything else you could possibly need is in this book though. I highly recommend it!
Book Review: Amazing!
Summary: 5 Stars
This thing seems to have every possible piece of knowledge you could ever need. I've learned stuff from this that I maybe never would have! Some real common handy stuff is metric conversion, both weight and temperature, often used knots; and others that you may just need very much sometime. It's no wonder that the Mythbusters carry one of these. Buy one, you'll love it!