You're right, the kindle version on amazon.fr is "only" €46. Well I still think that buying an american mechanical book seems like a bad idea outside the US. M

You're right, the kindle version on amazon.fr is "only" €46. Well I still think that buying an american mechanical book seems like a bad idea outside the US. My world is ISO, and american standards are a pain for us: fractions, inverted units like mesh sizes or thread pitch, letter drill bits (that one I never understood since they also have fractional sizes) and variable standard between screw diameter and pitch (actually ISO has coarse and fine pitch, but it's always coarse unless fine is explicitly designated). People who think we could just divide everything by 25.4 would be really naive. Even metal designations are different.