[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scanning Books with Playing Card Pictures

  • From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 06:33:24 -0600

The books you've cited are excellent books, but I think some of them are
already available, though perhaps not at Bookshare.  Some of the titles that
would be of interest to me include:

Bridge for Dummies
by Eddie Kantar (Paperback) 

New Complete Book of Bridge
by Albert Dormer and Ron Klinger (Paperback - April 1, 2005) - Illustrated

The Bridge Book: Defense at Contract Bridge Volume 4 (Bridge Book)
by Frank Stewart and Randall Baron (Paperback - Dec 1990)

Illustrated Guide To Texas Hold'em: Making Winners Out Of Beginners and
Advanced Players
by Dennis Purdy (Paperback - Jun 12, 2005)

Texas Hold'em Odds and Probabilities: Limit, No-Limit, and Tournament
Strategies
by Matthew Hilger (Paperback - Jun 1, 2006)

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Texas Hold'em, 2nd Edition (The Pocket Idiot's
Guide)
by Randy Burgess and Carl Baldassarre (Paperback - Sep 5, 2006)

The Everything Texas Hold 'em Book: Tips And Tricks You Need to Take the Pot
(Everything: Sports and Hobbies)
by John Wenzel (Paperback - Mar 2006)

Pinochle, how to play, how to win
by Walter Brown Gibson (Unknown Binding - 1974)

Do you have any of those at your library?  

These are just examples, of course.


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Lora,

This is probably the most comprehensive book and perhaps up-to-date book.

 Gibson, Walter Brown:  Hoyle's modern encyclopedia of card games : rules of
all the basic games and popular variations / by Walter B. Gibson.
Also Called       Modern encyclopedia of card games
          Encyclopedia of card games
          Card games
  1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
 New York : Broadway Books, 2001, c1974.
Paging    398 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Notes     Includes index.
          Originally published: [New York] : Doubleday, 1974.

There's also this, which is available in my branch: 

Hoyle's rules of games : descriptions of indoor games of skill and chance,
with advice on skillful play :
based on the foundations laid down by Edmond Hoyle,
1672-1769 / edited by Albert H. Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith ; revised
and updated by Philip D.
Morehead.
Edition           3rd rev. and updated ed.
Publisher         New York : Plume, 2001.
Paging    xvii, 362 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

-The Richard Frey book, published in 1991, is also in my library but not in
my branch.

Cindy

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