New 'Buying a Kilt' e-book

[Nick Fiddes]

Hi guys

I've spent most of my spare hours of late writing an e-book, which is intended mostly as an accessible 'Made Easy' guide to help first-timers who are thinking of buying a kilt, but may also be of interest to more experienced wearers. I've tried to be as impartial and objective as possible, so it's not just promoting my own company's services.

I should stress this is a purely personal project, and views expressed therein do not represent Scotweb / Kilt Store. I'm sure there will still be some howlers in there, and doubtless plenty of my ideas and indeed facts will be open to challenge. So let me say here and now I'm totally open to suggestions and criticisms. (But please be constructive - it's been a lot of work, and I'm doing my honest best to make a positive contribution!)

You'll find it at: http://scotweb.co.uk/nick/buyingyourkilt/

And btw, it's totally free, and anyone is welcome to copy and pass it around, but please note the conditions on the first page.

[Tartan Hiker]

Nick,

Let me be first to congratulate you on your monumental work. I've skimmed the document and read many of the sections and I believe you have produced an excellent guide. I look forward to reading it in more detail, and to the comments from the kilted legends here at X-Marks.

Now how can we force the rest of the world to read it?

Bill, who will be visiting you soon in Edinburgh!

[Nick Fiddes]

Thanks Bill. :-)

I've been told by someone else just now that the images look pretty poor on his screen. I've tried to keep the images small to reduce the file size for download, but on a Mac they still look fine I think. Can any other PC users tell me if this is a problem. I'm afraid DTP is not my strength! I'd like to fix this asap if I can find out how.

[Tartan Hiker]

They look fine on my PC.

[McClef]

An excellent resource Nick

Just one little point - on page 18 there is a reference to Queen Victoria and her grandfather , George IV. He was her uncle, George III was her grandfather.

Advance apologies for pedantry

[Livingston]

Nick, It looks fine on my pc. Just did a quick scroll thru and looks like a well put together document. I'll spend some time reading it over later. Thanks for the hard work.

[parpin]

Good day,

Your e-book is a real masterpiece and a good reference for all those
interested by the subject.

I will make a link to it in my personnal website.

[JimB]

Thank you for posting this!
It's a very nice job and I will definitely keep this for reference.
...and to occasionally look at that very lovely young lass in a few of the pictures

[starbkjrus]

Thank you for all the hard work. A quick perusal here on my office PC the pics look fine. I'll take a look on my MAC at home tonight. Looking forward to reading this.

[cavscout]

Very nice job Nick!

I'm looking at the pics through FireFox an dthe pics are a bit blurry at 100% magnification. They clear up when I drop down to 50%.