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Post by oldcajun123 on Feb 27, 2023 9:46:33 GMT -5
 Just bought on kindle Stephen Ambrose book about Lewis and Clark’s journey, last night watched on Amazon a hash mash thing about what might have happened to Lewis’s death, opened up my curiosity.
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Post by exbenedict on Feb 27, 2023 11:50:16 GMT -5
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 27, 2023 12:27:29 GMT -5
I have no more room on my bookshelves. They are full to the point where volumes are stacked horizontally on other volumes. Yet I continue to run across tomes that I must have, like a greedy miser. I just finished Harrison’s THE ROAD HOME and although having it on my iPads, along with about three hundred others, I had to rush over to Abebooks and get a hard copy because “real” books have paper and bindings. Am now working my way thru Harrison’s THE RAW AND THE COOKED, his collection of food writings that are so much more than about food. I’ll probably need a copy of that, too. The problem is that I have no more spaces on the walls for more shelves. Why can’t I just be happy with digi-books. They are compact and can go anywhere with you. I can spend a week or two on a mountain in Wyoming and have a ponderous library along for the ride. The Library of Congress and the British Library in a thingie the size of a legal tablet. But compulsions will not be denied, will they?
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Post by urbino on Feb 27, 2023 13:17:13 GMT -5
Real books have been hard for me to give up, too. You don’t get the same look and feel and smells from a digital copy. And you don’t actually own digital books. If a publisher pulls back the rights, your book is gone. But, like you, I just flat ran out of space, so I didn’t have much choice.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 27, 2023 17:16:54 GMT -5
Real books have been hard for me to give up, too. You don’t get the same look and feel and smells from a digital copy. And you don’t actually own digital books. If a publisher pulls back the rights, your book is gone. But, like you, I just flat ran out of space, so I didn’t have much choice. I love real books, but every time I get started reading my wife starts a conversation. So I just read on my phone, which she also complains about, "being on my phone". I have a Kindle that I can sometimes get away with, but every time I grab it, it's dead. |
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Post by username on Feb 28, 2023 21:33:34 GMT -5
I haven't read a dead tree hard copy book in a while but I just got the first part of the last book of the Horus Heresy "The End and the Death: Volume I" by Dan Abnett and it is a hefty tome. and i forgot how much I love that new book smell.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 28, 2023 21:40:42 GMT -5
Real books have been hard for me to give up, too. You don’t get the same look and feel and smells from a digital copy. And you don’t actually own digital books. If a publisher pulls back the rights, your book is gone. But, like you, I just flat ran out of space, so I didn’t have much choice. And...if a publisher deems that books like Tom Sawyer do not fit in today's world, you can end up with an overhauled book to reflect their wokeness. Sticking with paper. |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 28, 2023 21:43:16 GMT -5
Real books have been hard for me to give up, too. You don’t get the same look and feel and smells from a digital copy. And you don’t actually own digital books. If a publisher pulls back the rights, your book is gone. But, like you, I just flat ran out of space, so I didn’t have much choice. I love real books, but every time I get started reading my wife starts a conversation. So I just read on my phone, which she also complains about, "being on my phone". I have a Kindle that I can sometimes get away with, but every time I grab it, it's dead. I get that too...while she is watching a tv show that does not interest me. Somehow, women think watching the same show is "together time"...at least that is the case with mine. |
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 28, 2023 21:43:46 GMT -5
When you think about it it really is deeply humorous, outright laughable funny, that these revision-ninnies think they could improve on Twain. Not a one of them fit to clean his pipes.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 28, 2023 21:43:54 GMT -5
I love real books, but every time I get started reading my wife starts a conversation. So I just read on my phone, which she also complains about, "being on my phone". I have a Kindle that I can sometimes get away with, but every time I grab it, it's dead. I get that too...while she is watching a tv show that does not interest me. Somehow, women think watching the same show is "together time"...at least that is the case with mine. Exactly! |
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 28, 2023 21:50:12 GMT -5
I finished all 6 books in the Watch series by Sergei Lukyanenko. I just couldn't stop. If you like adult fantasy with great writing check it out. Now reading The Hallowed Hunt by Lois Mcmaster Bujold, a prequel to the Curse of Chalion.
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 28, 2023 21:51:16 GMT -5
Speaking of TV togetherness, I watched more of 1883 last night. Eli was bored stiff with camp scenes and lots of dialogue, but when there were horses dashing across the prairie and a buffalo hunt going on he was right there with his nose almost against the screen. “They” say that dogs cannot see two-dimensional images. I doubt that.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 28, 2023 21:53:54 GMT -5
Speaking of TV togetherness, I watched 1883 last night. Eli was bored stiff with camp scenes and lots of dialogue, but when there were horses dashing across the prairie and a buffalo hunt going on he was right there with his nose almost against the screen. “They” say that dogs cannot see two-dimensional images. I doubt that. Depends on the dog. My poodle would watch TV, but the Yorkies all ignore it, unless someone honks a horn, in which case we have to pause for 5 minutes. |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 28, 2023 22:06:29 GMT -5
Speaking of TV togetherness, I watched more of 1883 last night. Eli was bored stiff with camp scenes and lots of dialogue, but when there were horses dashing across the prairie and a buffalo hunt going on he was right there with his nose almost against the screen. “They” say that dogs cannot see two-dimensional images. I doubt that. I think that the improvement in tv's play a role... Years ago our dogs would occasionally get excited about something on the screen....My American bulldog was more tuned in on everything than a critic would be (modern tv), he never missed anything. He was ready to kick Godzilla butt! |
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Post by username on Feb 28, 2023 22:11:14 GMT -5
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Post by toshtego on Mar 3, 2023 1:40:43 GMT -5
Robert Harris latest novel Act of Oblivion. New England, 1666 or so. The two guys most responsible for the execution of Charles I are on the lam. Seems that with the death of the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell, England wants to place Charles II on the throne and deal with those who tried and executed Charles I. The two most responsible regicides have fled to hide in the new world. The chase to hunt them down is on.
You remember King Charles I. So admirably portrayed by Alec Guiness in the movie "Cromwell", 1970. His famous line: "Democracy, Mr. Cromwell, was a Greek drollery based upon the foolish notion there are extraordinary possibilities in very ordinary men". That line will always stand with Old King Charles I.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 3, 2023 6:29:04 GMT -5
Real books have been hard for me to give up, too. You don’t get the same look and feel and smells from a digital copy. And you don’t actually own digital books. If a publisher pulls back the rights, your book is gone. But, like you, I just flat ran out of space, so I didn’t have much choice. I read books. I spend enough time on the computer for work. Staring at a screen is not enjoyable for me. I often make notes in the margins and underline passages which are particularly well written. So, a bound book is prefered. I try to get older editions of some books as I like the better quality paper, the printing and the binding. So, most are hardbound. Paperbacks usually go into the wood stove when finished. |
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 3, 2023 9:03:18 GMT -5
You can underline/highlight digi-books, too. But it’s not the same thing. Quite a bit more hassle to find that passage you marked if you can’t just grab the book and riffle thru it.
I have to wonder how wrong Chuck One was.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 3, 2023 13:05:02 GMT -5
You can underline/highlight digi-books, too. But it’s not the same thing. Quite a bit more hassle to find that passage you marked if you can’t just grab the book and riffle thru it. I have to wonder how wrong Chuck One was. I agree about the quote now attributed to Charles I. Democracy is an ideal not a reality, it seems to me. Kind of like More's "Utopia". As with most ideals, we fall short of achievement. |
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Post by urbino on Mar 3, 2023 13:33:58 GMT -5
I got an email from Amazon earlier this week saying the new Kindle supports writing in your books with an included stylus. Still not nearly as convenient, but at least they are making progress.
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Post by urbino on Mar 3, 2023 13:36:45 GMT -5
True. The course was set. As I understand it, Old Reinhard died from a Staph infection resulting from the horsehair stuffing in his Mercedes Benz being lodged in his arse. The bomb the partisans tossed into his car did its job. What a wonderful and just way for one of the most evil men of the 20th Century to die. Reinhard has been a subject of interest to me for some time. How can anyone degenerate as he did? He had a solid upbringing. His father was a professor of music and much acclaimed. Reinhard was an accomplished Violinist. The movie "Conspiracy", 2001 is well worth the time. I think I watched that one not so terribly long ago. Cilian Murphy? Turns out, no, the movie I saw is called Anthropoid, which was the name of the mission to kill him. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 3, 2023 14:58:56 GMT -5
You can underline/highlight digi-books, too. But it’s not the same thing. Quite a bit more hassle to find that passage you marked if you can’t just grab the book and riffle thru it. I have to wonder how wrong Chuck One was. I agree about the quote now attributed to Charles I. Democracy is an ideal not a reality, it seems to me. Kind of like More's "Utopia". As with most ideals, we fall short of achievement. And that's why our founders set up a Republic. If we had only followed the Constitution. If you look at all our issues, they are things that the Founding Fathers warned us about. |
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Post by instymp on Mar 3, 2023 17:43:48 GMT -5
Harry Bosch series
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 3, 2023 18:15:47 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 3, 2023 21:53:27 GMT -5
I remember reading on this subject many, many years ago and I believed it was true then and I haven't seen anything to make me think differently. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 4, 2023 11:27:57 GMT -5
"I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy, censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything—you can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is to kill him. " RAH |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 5, 2023 10:41:50 GMT -5
For incredibly narrow interest musical geekery: Endless Endless: a lo fi history of the elephant 6 mystery, Adam Clair, 2022. A look at Jeff Mangum and Neutral Milk Hotel Aeroplane over the Sea and related people and music of the Elephant 6 collective.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 5, 2023 11:06:30 GMT -5
A good read, and spot on. I am glad to live in a day an age where we have the modern conveniences and technology like this medium. Not so glad as to where we are at on the Tytler circle, we are a nation in decline, and I do not see any possibility of a reversal. |
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Post by Zach on Mar 9, 2023 19:47:32 GMT -5
Starting Notes from A Dead House by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky translation, Alfred Knopf hardback printing. The past few months I've completed 7 of Dostoevsky's novels plus a couple short stories, one being The Grand Inquisitor (excerpted from The Brother's Karamazov) and so I guess this will be #8 of about 16 of his total books (there are more short stories and some I can't really find in physical print) I'm going to knock every single one out this year in the next few months. I've bought all the rest, excepting the Everyman's Library copy of The Brother's Karamazov that I want yet. That's his magnus opus so I'm finishing with it. Along the way, I've picked up some 60 more books the past couple months on my "to be read list."
Interspersed with this I'm reading H.P. Lovecraft from the complete fiction collection and teaching my six year old daughter geography from her Merriam-Webster Children's Dictionary, which is a beautiful picture dictionary that also includes continents/countries and their flags. Going to get her pumped up for the summer reading program this summer at our main downtown library.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Mar 13, 2023 13:44:19 GMT -5
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next, Bradley Onishi, 2023. From Birchers to J6, written by a scholar who happens to be an Evangelical who was previously involved in the movement. Yes, I read as much as I can on this subject, because I have to: people like me are their scapegoat. We always have been, but in a year with nearly 400 anti-LGBTQ bills put forth by March, I think we've surpassed Jews and brown people as the current bogeyman. Anyway, I hope the "what comes next" is positive, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Just bought on kindle Stephen Ambrose book about Lewis and Clark’s journey, last night watched on Amazon a hash mash thing about what might have happened to Lewis’s death, opened up my curiosity.
