The Origami Forum

Just a quick poll about where you get most of your diagrams / books from.

I can't vote in this one Saj. My answers are three out of the four. I can't buy books from a local store because, well, I'm the only one who does origami around here. But I do order books, borrow them from the library and use the internet.

Jen

Where do you get most of them from? I get most of mine over the net.

Mostly on the net. I often start from the Swami's site, at
http://www.geocities.com/foldingca/diagrams.html, since that has an extensive page of links to sites with diagrams.

Apart from these, the other source are the various convention books which I regularly order every year.

Actually, I get most of my origami books mail order from Origami House... so I put over the internet....

How do you mail order books from them, other than the Tanteidans? Do you use postal money orders?

Bookends in London has been my main source for Origami texts. To the best of my knowledge this is the only shop in England that goes out of its way to stock a broad variety of books on the subject. I am certain that, had it not been there, I would have given up the hobby by now through lack of available diagrams.

Over the years I have also found many excellent designs on the internet.

Ordering from Origami house looks terribly complicated.

I get them wherever I can. There are a number of sites on the internet, either for purchasing books or online diagrams. I've also found that older folders know exactly where to look to find rare models. (By the way, thanks Wolf!)

Basically, without the internet, I would be folding only the old, traditional folds like the crane, lily, waterbomb, etc.

I've found a great way of using google in this quest. A normal search in google just gives a huge list of useless sites, so what I do is run all my searches as image searches. That way I can choose the image of what I want and look for the diagrams on the site the picture is on. One good thing is that this crosses some language barriers.

Since most diagrams are in .pdf format. You can also try doing a normal search and put ext:pdf behind the search.

I started by using the net. But after a few years I find that there isn't anything all that new out there...aside from an occasional link here and there. Now I prefer to order books, it is easier to find the rare stuff and it is like christmas when you see that little package waiting note from the postoffice.

do you think you could post a few links to a few good sites?

fire_phoenix wrote:do you think you could post a few links to a few good sites?

use this link: http://www.geocities.com/foldingca/diagrams.html
it may keep you busy for a while


Christian