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10/21/23 Instructables Projects Here's a way to find affordable Instructables. Navigate to any subheading on the linked page such as Workshop, Circuits or whatever, and then click the channel you are interested in. Use the drop down menu on the right hand side to select "all projects." Then sort by "I Made Its." Bingo. You'll get all kinds of stuff that's affordable, cheap, or free.
10/22/23 You can also use the search bar in Instructables for a specific thing and then filter the results in the same way. This helps you find specific DIY tutorials fast and also at an affordable price.
1/25/24 Bet you've looked for a specific topic to learn before or just high quality information and went "what the heck?! it's all crap!" when you put your search query into a search engine or a library catalog or even browsed a bookstore. Well, a lot of unscrupulous individuals and publishing companies lately have been doing the sociopath of late, the whole "hey I can get passive income by churning out books or blogs that sell or affiliate market whether or not they are good, and then all I gotta do is rake in the dough while the idiots get ripped off by me." Thus it flooded the market and the Internet. There are a couple of workarounds. 1. Seek out people who self-publish stuff like ebooks and promote that kind of thing. 2. Experiment a little to see which publishers and authors tend to publish good things and then seek out more by those people. Anness Publishing is the best publisher I know, and it went out of business but the books still circulate, thank heaven. Like other publishing companies, you often have to seek for each individual imprint under the umbrella of the larger book label when searching for books made by the publisher on say, Walmart.com or some other bookseller, or the stream of books dries up prematurely. Here's their publisher imprint list page. Harper-Collins is another formerly good one though they have been sucking lately. Author-wise, depends on the topic. If they made one they will probably make another that is good. For instance, Theodore Gray made some great Chemistry books, if he publishes another, great. Authors also sometimes write under pseudonyms.