Internet Sources for Electronics Books,
Standards, Manuals, Journals, and Magazines

• Number of orders that I've placed with them (since October 2000).
• How many items I bought from them.
• Range of delivery times that I've seen.

Companies Selling Electronics Books

ABEbooks 14 orders totalling 28 books, with 4-19 days delivery.
AddAll (order from individual book sellers)
Alibris 20 orders totalling 70 books, with 5-28 days delivery.
Amazon 20 orders totalling 28 books, with 2-23 days delivery.
Barnes & Noble 6 orders totalling 11 books, with 4-26 days delivery time.
BestBookBuys (order from individual book sellers)
Biblio (order from individual book sellers)
BookFinder (order from individual book sellers)
BookFinder4u (order from individual book sellers)
Books A Million 6 orders totalling 15 books, with 5-21 days delivery.
Edward R. Hamilton 6 orders totalling 82 books, with 10-13 days delivery. Shipping and handling is a fixed price, no matter how many books you order.
Fatbrain (merged with Barnes & Noble) 3 orders totalling 4 books, 2-14 days delivery.
Half Price Books (I usually hit the book stores themselves).
Powell's 13 orders totalling 85 books, with 6-13 days delivery. This is a very dangerous web site, because I rarely go to it without spending at least $200 on books...
Zubal 5 orders totalling 18 books, with 3-13 days delivery.

#1 Engineering Books
A1books 2 orders totalling 3 books, 11 days delivery.
A1TechBooks 1 order totalling 1 book, 13 days delivery.
Adams & Adams 1 order totalling 1 book, 4 days delivery.
AkaBook
AllBookStores
AllDirect
AllDiscountBooks.net
AllTimeBooks
Alphabet Street 1 order totalling 2 books, 2-26 days delivery.
Amazon CA
Amazon.co.uk 1 order totalling 1 book, 23 days delivery.
Amazon.de
Amazon.fr
American Book Center
Antiqbook 1 order totalling 1 book, 3 days delivery.
Bargain Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 6 days delivery.
Bequaert Old Books 1 order totalling 11 books, 6 days delivery.
Bestprices.com
Biggerbooks.com 1 order totalling 1 book, 32 days delivery
Blackwells (US)
Blake's Books
Book Buddy1 order totalling 8 books, 16 days delivery.
Book Eddy
Book Miser 1 order totalling 1 book, 10 days delivery.
Bookbyte
BookCloseouts
BookDigger.com
Bookfellows 1 order totalling 1 book, 10 days delivery.
BookHQ
Bookpool
Books 'N Stuff 1 order totalling 1 book, 7 days delivery.
Books of India 2 orders totalling 37 books, 20-25 days delivery.
Booksfree.com
BooksPrice.com
Bookworks 1 order totalling 1 book, 8 days delivery.
Brand Bookshop 2 orders totalling 3 booksalibris/9 days delivery.
Bunches of Books 2 orders totalling 3 books, 2-8 days delivery.
Buy.com
Camelot Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 6 days delivery.
CampusI
Chambal.com
Chandler & Reed Rare Books 1 order totalling 16, 14 days delivery.
Classbook 2 orders totalling 2 books, 7-9 days delivery.
Compliance Club
Cornwall Discount Books
D A Information Services
DigitalGuru
Directtextbook
DiscountTextbooks.net
doublediscount.com 1 order totalling 3 books, 8-9 days delivery.
Ebay 1 order totalling 1 book, 9 days delivery.
eBooks.com
ecampus.com 2 orders totalling 2 books, with 5-9 days delivery.
Electrostatic.com
Engineer & Inventor
FetchBook.Info
gohastings.com
Half Price Computer Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 7 days delivery.
International Product Safety Bookshop
J. Hood, Booksellers 1 order totalling 1 book, 4 days delivery.
Johnson Technical Books 1 order totalling 5 books, 17 days delivery.
KaSha
Kelly Boggs 1 order totalling 8 books, 9 days delivery.
Largie,com
Lawrence's Books 1 order totalling 9 books, 14 days delivery.
Martinton Book 1 order totalling 1 book, 10 days delivery.
MBS OPOE 1 order totalling 1 book, 9 days delivery.
Net Shopping Mall
No Garbage Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 12 days delivery.
Opamp Technical Books
Page 1 Books
Pengwyn Books 1 order totalling 6 books, 11 days delivery.
Perryman Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 12 days delivery.
Postpaid Books 2 orders totalling 8 books, 4-6 days delivery.
Real Groovy
Silicon Valley Fine Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 1 day delivery.
Strandbooks.com 2 orders totalling 2 books, 6-11 days delivery.
Surface Mount Technology Association 2 orders totalling 4 books, 4-7 days delivery.
Superbookdeals
Technology Books and Computers on Sale
Terramedia Books 1 order totalling 3 books, 13 days delivery.
testprepdepot.com 1 order totalling 5 books, 9 days delivery.
TextbooksRus
TextbookX
Title Wave Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 3 days delivery.
TomFolio 1 order totalling 1 book, 6 days delivery.
Totalcampus.com 2 orders totalling 2 books, 9 days delivery.
Used Book Central
Ventura Pacific 1 order totalling 7 books, 4 days delivery.
Walmart
Warrior Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 5 days delivery.
WebBooks 1 order totalling 5 books, 9-14 days delivery.
WHSmith
Xerxes Books 1 order totalling 1 book, 3 days delivery.

Reference Book has links to many book sellers and web sites on a wide variety of topics.

Publishers of Electronics Books

A Brief Introduction to Electronics Standards

• FCC web site.
• GPO Access web site.

United States military standards (MIL-STD-xxx) are prepared by the Department of Defense. Many of these, along with military handbooks (MIL-HDBK-xxx) may be downloaded for free from DODSSP.

In Canada, EMC standards for residential, commercial, and industrial products/ equipment are published by Industry Canada. These standards may be downloaded for free from the Industry Canada web site.

Many Canadian safety standards are published by the Canadian Standards Association. Some of these may be available from the standards suppliers listed below, or they can be bought from ShopCSA.

Canadian military standards are prepared by the Department of National Defence. I am not aware of an Internet source for them.

In Europe, EMC, electromagnetic interference (EMI), electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity, and safety of residential, commercial, and industrial products/ equipment all fall under the CE Mark. The easy way to prove that we can legally put the CE Mark on products or equipment is by self-certification, showing that the products/ equipment meets all of the applicable Harmonized Standards known as European Norms (EN's). If we design custom or low-volume products/ equipment, or our products/ equipment don't fall under any EN's in some area, we may need to submit a Technical Construction File to a Competent National Authority instead. EN's are harmonized under specific Directives adopted by the European Union. We may use an EN or its amendment once it has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) under a Directive. Once we reach the date of cessation of presumption of conformity of the superceded standard (DOCOPOCOSS, or date of withdrawal, DOW), we must use the EN or its amendment. When a new EN or amendment concerning our product/ equipment is published in the OJ, we may use either the current or the new EN/ amendment. After the DOCOPOCOSS, we must use the new EN/ amendment.

To find the Harmonized Standards under a Directive, search the OJ for the number of the Directive (see list below). Look for the most recent hit titled "Official Journal xxx" or something of that sort. Following that link, look in the table of contents for an item titled something like "Commission communication in the framework of the implementation of the Council directive <whatever>". Clicking on the page number will take us to a .pdf file with the list of Harmonized Standards under that Directive. Sometimes the EN's and their amendments are very hard to find. Look in the "Reference document" column. If it lists a CISPR, IEC, or other standard/ amendment, and doesn't say "(Modified)", then the EN standard/ amendment is identical to this other standard/ amendment, and we can use the reference document instead of the EN document. If the "Reference document" column says "(Modified)", there may be minor or major differences in the EN standard/ amendment. In this case only the EN document is legal for CE Marking.

Some Directives that apply to electronic products/ equipment for Europe are the:

• AIMD Directive, 90/385/EEC, July 8, 2004 list of Harmonized Standards.
• Automotive EMC Directive, 2004/104/EC (replaces 72/245/EEC and 70/156/EEC), November 13, 2004 (test standards contained within this Directive).
• EMC Directive, 89/336/EEC, April 23, 2004 list of Harmonized Standards.
• EMC Directive 2004/108/EC, which replaces the current EMC Directive, 89/336/EEC on July 20, 2007.
• IVDD Directive, 98/79/EC.
• LVD Directive, 73/23/EEC, April 29, 2004 list of Harmonized Standards.
• MDD Directive 93/42/EEC, June 24, 2004 list of Harmonized Standards.
• RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC, published February 13, 2003, and effective July 1, 2006.
• RTTE Directive, 1999/5/EC, April 30, 2004 list of Harmonized Standards.
• WEEE Directive, 2002/96/EC, published February 13, 2003, and effective August 13, 2005.

In Australia and New Zealand, EMC and safety standards for residential, commercial, and industrial products/ equipment are published by Standards Australia. These standards are sold by SAI Global Limited.

In Japan, EMC for information technology equipment (ITE) falls under the voluntary VCCI standards published by the Voluntary Control Council for Interference by Information Technology Equipment. These standards may be downloaded for free from the VCCI web site.

Companies/Organizations Selling or Providing Electronics Standards

British Standards Online
Comm 2000
Danish Standards Association 1 order totalling 1 standard, 0 days delivery.
Document Center 2 orders totalling 2 standards, 6-8 days delivery.
Europort 1 order totalling 5 standards, 8 days delivery.
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Web Store. 2 orders totalling 2 standards, 0-13 days delivery.
IHS (was Global Engineering Documents) 3 orders totalling 3 standards, 0-5 days delivery.
International Product Safety Bookshop
NASA Standards Database
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)- United States Code of Federal Regulations
Pike & Fischer
SEE Luxemburg
Swedish Standards Institute (SIS)

Publishers of Electronics Standards

Companies Selling Equipment Manuals

Finding Back Issues of Electronics Journals and Magazines

Back Issue Magazines and Newspapers
Kelly Books Limited
Linda Tresham's House of Magazines
Million Magazines
www.Pastpaper.com

For fairly-popular magazines and journals, book sales sponsored by public libraries and Friends of the Library organizations are a good possibility. Book Sale Finder lists many of these sales in the United States and Canada.

Hamfests are another possibility for amateur-radio-related magazines. The ARRL web site lets us search for ARRL-sanctioned hamfests that will be held in our area, or somewhere that we will be visiting.

Some used book stores also sell used magazines. Almost all of the Half Price Books stores that I have been to have a used magazine section, usually back near the clearance books. On business and pleasure trips I like to check out used book stores along the route and at our destination. The Used Booklover's Guide to ____ guides, by David and Susan Siegel, are a very valuable resource for us bibliophiles. Unfortunately, many used book stores go out of business between the time that the Siegels' guide for an area is published and when I can get there. So if I have the time, I like to check an Internet phonebook to make sure that the book store still exists--at least when the most recent phonebook was compiled--before going way off my planned route. An E-mail or phone call to verify the store location and its hours would be even better...

Ebay auctions are another possibility. Search for the title of the magazine, and look through the auctions. Since most auctions last a week, we might want to do this search every week or so.

Please send critiques, corrections, and/or additions to jrbarnes@iglou.com.

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2. Are safe and reliable.
3. Can be manufactured, tested, repaired, and serviced economically.
4. May be sold and used worldwide.
5. Can be easily adapted/enhanced to meet new and changing requirements.

Our President, John R. Barnes, is a Professional Engineer (PE) licensed in the state of Kentucky, a NARTE-Certified Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineer (NCE), a NARTE-Certified Electromagnetic Compatibility Technician (NCT), a NARTE-Certified Electrostatic Discharge Control Engineer (ESDC Eng), a NARTE-Certified Electrostatic Discharge Control Technician (ESDC Tech), a NARTE-Certified Product Safety Engineer (PSE), a Senior Member of the IEEE (SM IEEE), and an Advanced-class amateur radio operator. He has written three books: Electronic System Design: Interference and Noise Control Techniques, which was published in English in 1987 and in Russian in 1990; and Robust Electronic Design Reference Book, Volumes I and II, which came out in 2004. John has also written articles on designing electronics for electrostatic discharge (ESD) immunity for Printed Circuit Design and Conformity magazines.

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