Technician Tuesday: Now is a great time to look for how-to guides.

It’s a great time to find user guides. In the last five years, I’ve seen really good books published on things like sewing machine repair, and the software programs Audacity, GIMP, and Inkscape. Humble Bundle is a great site to check for bundles of how-to books, including lot of DIY electronics books about Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and Beagle Bone.

A friend was trying to find YouTube videos on musical instrument repair, and I found several books published on small sites about that too.

I enjoy reading about farming, plants, and botany. For that, Chelsea Green is a very tempting site to browse through.

This is true for all types of topics I’m not even covering. A lot of the how-to topics I’m finding how-to books on now were topics I searched for ten years ago and not nearly as much was available.

I considered looking up links to include here, but that’s would defeat my point. Learning how to search for topics is a good skill to have and to keep in practice. (I heard someone recently refer to it as “library science.”) There’s a huge amount available relatively recently. It’s a great time to find how-to guides.