Boy, do I ever understand, Mike. For what its worth, I am going to try to post my collection on a site called liberatedmanuals.com, if I can persuade the site owner to do so, but I'll be sending him download CD's to do it with. He has over 4700 US Army Field and Technical manuals posted for free download, very few have anything to do with aviation but it may be worth a look to you, there are a few flight manuals. You may also want to look at publicintelligence.org, they have a number of post-war TO's and NATOPS manals also for free download. If you download the F-14 manuals, be advised that the listings are reversed, if you download the checklist, you get the manual; if you download the manual, you get the checklist. And, my friend, as you say life goes on, or at least what passes for it. Have a good one!