Good Online Book Seller - Structural Books

[beamer]

Hi All - Looking for a good online bookseller that isn't Amazon. Don't mind them but would like a more engineering oriented shop with a wider selection. Mostly looking for structural books. Suggestions? Thanks

 

[KootK]

I used to get a lot of good stuff from Ebay but that's dies off in recent years.

I've also had luck with Alibris for some hard to find things.

As time goes on, however, Amazon seems to be aggregating results from other places such that it's capturing most of what's out there.

I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.

 

[theonlynamenottaken]

I asked my junior engineers this question a couple of years ago. I try to always get the perspective of the younger generations since I have to readily accept that age weakens one's grasp on newer trends. The answer I got shocked me a bit, but I've since begun to adopt their outlook.

Their answer? "Why would you ever use books when there are PDFs now?" They all use PDFs on tablets for everything and I've got to admit that keyword searching 2000 page documents is handy, not to mention the environmentally friendly aspect. Couple OCR'd PDFs with an application like Copernic and you're unstoppable. This obviously won't help those going into engineering exams, and it doesn't help those of us old enough to not want to change our ways, but nevertheless it seems to be the way things are going.

 

[Guest262653]

The following publishers have lots of good structural books:
- Wiley:

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-350523.html

- CRC Press:

https://www.crcpress.com/engineering-civil

- Ernst-und-Sohn (Wiley brand):

https://www.ernst-und-sohn.de/en/home

- ICE Virtual Library:

http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/

 

[IRstuff]

Open access books:

http://www.intechopen.com/

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[Gumpmaster]

This search engine looks at a bunch of different sites including Amazon and Alibris: AddAll

 

[Ron]

Abe's books.

 

[IDS]

The Institution of Civil Engineers bookshop is pretty good.

http://www.icebookshop.com/Structures_and_Buildings.asp

Regarding indexing and searching pdfs (and other formats containing text), I used to use Copernic, but gave up on it because of a number of problems (the details of which I forget now). I didn't use anything for a few years, because I knew the MS offering was useless, but recently I tried switching Windows indexing back on, and tried the search from File Explorer. To my surprise the indexing seems to work with no noticeable effect on anything else, and the search also works well. You can now set it up with a preview window, which on modern hi-res displays can be made big enough to make the text easily readable, and the pre-view works near instantly. It works well on Windows 10 and 8, I haven't tried on earlier versions.

Don't bother with the search app; it's useless if you are searching documents for text.

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[JStephen]

For current textbooks, try your local large university bookstore.
Half-Price Books here locally has a rather random assortment of engineering texts, and occasionally something interesting pops up there.
Dover Publications has a number of older classic books and textbooks reprinted at reasonable prices. One of particular interest is Timoshenko's "History of The Strength of Materials".

 

[beamer]

Thanks all for the suggestions. I have been using pdfs of some codes and the word search helps out quite a bit. Half Price Books has been great to find older text books and I've found some good ones. What I'm looking for is a site that has all of the various codes, texts, etc. There used to be Bookmarki.com but I hadn't visited their site in a couple of years and it appears they are out of business.