read any good books lately?

Good idea, Jeff. Although I could have sworn there's a thread called 'what are you reading', but I can't seem to find it.

If I'm doting and there isn't then this is a good start.

I read that only a few years ago myself. I have a four volume box set that includes The Hobbit. The books are so immersive, and descriptive, that I remember when I closed the book it felt like the room went silent and when I put the book back in the four volume slip case, I wondered that the box itself didn't jump around and fall to the floor, with all the tumultuous activity inside.

Ahh... it was an actual sub-section. That's what threw me. I was looking for a thread.
Thank you.

Sorry to hear about your sight. That must make it difficult even being on here.

Stick and Rudder, by Wolfgang Langeweische. A classic since its publication in 1944, this is still arguably the best book on how an airplane flies described from the pilot’s point of view.

Microsoft Flight Simulator X, for Pilot's Real World Training, by Jeff Van West and Kevin lane-Cummings. It's 747 pages long. Takes you from the four gaits and trim in a Piper Cub to emergency Commercial Pilot's one engine feathered IFR approaches and landings in a nasty crosswind. Practice your unstoppable IFR clearance copying skills while tackling the notorious VOR DME arc! 747 pages; it covers quite a bit. Lot's of book learnin' - yum.

I'd read Hobbit and LoTR for the somethingth time, but you're pretty emotionally drained after the last sentence, as chef and jeff said

I did the audio book of one of Michael Connelly's Bosch thrillers. I wasn't expecting to like it, but I really did.

Other great books to smoke with would be the Akashic Noir series. I am reading Brooklyn Noir. I finished Manhattan Noir. Each book is a collection of short hard boiled crime stories set in the featured city. They now have them for cities all over the world.

The stories don't take too long, so you can put the book down and get to your day, and each story is a different author, so you get introduced to authors you might not have tried.

I'm assuming the page-number is not a coincidence?

I don't know. Maybe a happy accident? There are no This Page Intentionally Left Blanks in there, and it doesn't even get to jets - the commercial section is flown in light twins still with piston engines. No turboprops or turbines, either. There's a lot of book leaning in aviation; 747 pages only gets you from a Piper Cub (which doesn't even have an electrical system), to light twins like the Beech Baron and King Air 250.

Civilian planes only do five things each flight: takeoff, climb, cruise, descend and land, but think of how many more buttons, knobs and switches there are in a 747 over a Cub to accomplish those same five things. With combat pilots, that's just the beginning; there's a fight in the middle. This is why military pilots and airline captains can be cocky; they really do know a bunch of stuff.

I was led to setting the preferences in Chrome to a 175% zoom,
I can now sit back and read all that silly stuff I'm typing.Downloaded
an audio book for my wife the other day "Harry Potter and the Cursed 
Child".And yes,I'll be listening too.Remember "Twist and Flick"

I have just finished Head On, by John Scalzi. It's the second book in his "Locked In" universe. Pretty good read, but not his best. Really a standard murder mystery with some hard sci-fi thrown in.

I’ve got to check that out. I watch the series with Tom Baker and then the 5th Doctor.

You definitely need to read "Fate the Hunter" if you haven't already

I have the same problems with my eye/eyes as you and another nifty trick is, that you can maximize/minimize text by pressing Ctrl and scrolling up or down with the mouse wheel. That way, you don't have to keep a fixed zoom size. Works with the internet as well as your local documents.
(You probably know this trick, but I just thought that I'd mention it).

I did not.Thank You !