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The 1632 novels can probably be ignored if one's into the social and tech stuff. That's easier found in the Grantville Gazette stories. Since they can't change the course of the main storyline, they have to write smaller stories around it, so it's in those that you read about paper factories in Norway or rubber expeditions to South America. Granted, not all the stories have good stuff – the musical stories bore me, as do the wedding ones, and so on – but about half do have what I'm looking for in paratime/timedrop tales.
In a similar way, I don't like how John F. Car continued the Lord Kalvan tales, since he upped the military aspects and downplayed the socio-tech ones. Better are the extensions by Gina Marie Wylie, where she deals with more our-time-ish folk dropping into Kalvan's timeline, and you get stuff about railroads and micro-loan coöps and so on.
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