It looks like I don't need to keep these original books, and I don't 
need to scan anything.  Anyone who wishes to have the pages can get them 
from the internet.  A little bit of exploring brought these links to light:

The Boy Mechanic: Book 1, 700 things  16,343k (Google Books)
https://archive.org/details/boymechanicthin00cogoog

The Boy Mechanic: Book 1, 700 things  17,760K (Gutenberg Project)
https://archive.org/details/theboymechanicvo12655gut

(I'd go with the Google Books version of Book 1. Gutenberg Project 
re-typesets the whole thing and pagination is lost.)

The Boy Mechanic: Book 2, 1000 things  32,308K
https://archive.org/details/boymechanicbook200chic2

The Boy Mechanic: Book 3, 800 things  33,083K
https://archive.org/details/boymechanic03popu

What I had in mind in the beginning was a small book with a title 
something like /The Boy Mechanic Maps the Neighborhood//. / Included in 
it would not only the cartography articles but also the articles about 
making the tools and whatever can be found about tricks with math (I 
found at least one). Someone else would have to do it, though, because I 
lack the software to take the PDFs apart and re-assemble the articles 
into a single document.  In an ideal world, the whole thing might be 
tested by a school, and the testing managed by someone who's on this 
list.  Does anyone know of a middle-school administrator who'd like to 
work with this idea?


Michael Holt



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