MALAYSIA 25 YEARS OF SURVEY An e-book by Zacharias Liangas. If you`ve seen his DX posts to HCDX and other lists, you will have seen his frequent plugs for this. Since I don`t have anything but a desktop, Zach sent me a draft printout of the book for review. I have finally read thru it, so here goes:
The printout is 64 pages no color. I assume the e-book has color illustrations, hotlinks and audio links. If my command of Greek were no better than his command of English, I would never attempt to write a book; yet, we can generally understand what he means. One big problem is his confusion over prepositions, especially in, on and at, which to use before which words. He says in the preface [sic], ``Please notice that the language here is mine idiom (ie as i call Liang-lish) without anyone assisting me to write this e-book. I call it also quite web-ish or even simple English with he hope that the reader can understand it.`` It certainly looks as if it has not been proofread, with numerous typos or mis-English, abbr`d terminology. He cites many Malaysian music titles in Italix. Zach is absolutely enthralled with Malaysian music, and the book is all about how he has collected/accessed it thru the years, via broadcasts, webcasts, buying recordings, visiting SE Asia, etc. One can only admire his dedication to this passion and desire to share it with others. There are quite a few log lists of pertinent stations on SW and FM, not only Malaysia, but Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei; but much of that is historical, as unfortunately not much is left on SW. The full e-book runs to 120 pages, he says. You can get an idea of what it`s like from the free sample at the ordering site via: http://goo.gl/Pi87gp Which has had 491 views so far. He recently said, ``buy it before is too late`` --- I`m not sure what that means, if it will be withdrawn, or because of the severe economic crisis Greece is going thru now. You will find that it costs only $5. Zach also says in his bio on the back cover, ``he is jobless``. May I suggest that in appreciation for his work as a fellow DX/SW listener, you consider helping him out by buying this book, even if you think you are not that interested in Malaysian music! (Glenn Hauser, June 29, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
