Progress -- 1st Download?

The link below should take you to a viewable/downloadable .pdf file.

The file content is a simple extract from one of the Basic Microscopy books and is included here largely as a "test case." If this linking proves reliable, then more, and better, examples should follow soon.

 Don't get nervous over the "Creative Commons" stuff -- basically, that just says the file is yours to do with as you wish, just as long as you don't try to sell the content, or change it and then re-distribute it. However, as long as you don't alter the file content, then you are free to give it (pass it along...) to anyone you wish. Also, you are free to copy the file to a CD or other memory device, or to print it, and use the result yourself or pass that along, as long as the actual content of the file is not changed. 

That said, here's the link to the first document:

Basic Optical Contrast Methods.

This .pdf test file contains three introductory-level excerpts from one of the Better Microscopy books which discuss: Oblique Illumination, Basic Darkfield, and Low-power Darkfield. (Files covering these topics at a more advanced level are in preparation and should be released soon.)

Note that the page margins have been adjusted to permit direct printing on US standard 8.5 x 11in. paper.
(If necessary, similar files can be prepared for Euro-standard A4-size paper.)

Note also that the pages in the file retain the page numbering of the original (source) document, and there are only 7 pages in this file. So, when you see the high page numbers, don't think you ate missing a lot of pages -- they simply aren't in that file! This practice will be followed in future files so that separate releases may be aggregated later and easily arranged into the same page sequence as in the original book. 

This link will be tested for a couple of days on various systems and browsers to verify that it works reliably, and then additional, more detailed, documents will be introduced, as time permits.