<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1515" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hmmmm? A "durable" soft cover costs = almost as much as a Hard Cover?!!!Yikes! If that were the case, and, if there was just = a small difference between the two, I'd opt for the Hard Cover. Go figger on = that one. As it is a Reference Book, it is nice to have durability. However, few = of us, have our shop books in the "coffee table" setting.<G> (Which = reminds me...it's time to get all the cobwebs off of all of my reference books! = Dern Spiders! They're really a problem this year!!!grrr!)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>