A Special Book

 

1. I have just spent an hour and a half with my ISP and new equipment yadda yadda and totally exhausted.  Came to BMEWS to see what was happening and caught this post.

   Christopher. We have stuff very much in common. BOOKS!
   I think I have told this before. ?  Don’t recall. I was reading early mostly due to my grandmother who couldn’t read a word of English. Cept when I was very young, I didn’t know that. I’d come home from school and she’d make me read out loud to her while she did housework or whatever. She made me read everything with print on it.  By the time I cottoned on to the fact she couldn’t read or write English, she had me reading our newspapers to her.  She could read and speak at least two other languages. I think there was a third.  I used to see her reading foreign papers so had assumed she read English as well. She came from a world of work with brief periods of joy and they were very brief, but books were always an escape.  My favorite building in town was the library. Oh yeah. Back in the olde days, I used to haunt the morgue files of our newspapers. Long before puters and most educational.
   Wife and I exchange books all the time and discuss them.. There isn’t any TV in this house but it has more to do with anger over how the Beeb spends public money then any intellectual pursuits.
   I did however watch quite a bit when we were home (ah, home) in the states. Especially baseball.  Which I just discovered I can do by signing up for a fee of I think $59 for the season and see em on my pc. Minus commercials between innings.  Anyway, books remain where we are at and it’s always been that way.
   Gotta thank grandma for that.

   Cheers ...
   I’m taking a nap or something.  Tech dept. calling me back at 6 tonight to finish up.
   They sent me a free hub/router. Really nice and I just discovered it’s faster.But I’m also worn out.  Drew and I are living in parallel universe or something close to it.
   Windows ... and I don’t mean computers.  Granted he is working harder then I am, but I’m older so the tole a bit tiring. In our case, scraping rust and repainting etc. Cleaning black mildew and so on.

   Posted by peiper       08/03/2010  at  10:13 AM  



2. peiper:

   Books! Books are cool!

   You are correct,

   Christopher. We have stuff very much in common. BOOKS!

   Peiper, next time you and the missus deign to slum in the USA, please consider Dayton. Won’t be great sleeping arrangements, but I am a decent cook. We’ll put you up for free, you just have to eat my cooking.

   Posted by Christopher       08/03/2010  at  10:51 AM  



3. My best girl friend loves books so much that upon considering buying the Kindle reader, she tells me,
   ‘You know as much as all of my books take up space having the Kindle just wouldn’t be the same as holding a book in my hands and flipping its pages’

   Posted by Severa       08/04/2010  at  02:45 PM  



4. "Good luck, boys, good luck storming the castle!”

   Posted by Rickvid in Seattle       08/05/2010  at  03:24 PM  



5. Severa,

   ‘You know as much as all of my books take up space having the Kindle just wouldn’t be the same as holding a book in my hands and flipping its pages’

   That’s a good point. I agree. That’s why I keep the really good books around in print. But for the fluffy, light, escapist reading, I now use my iPad.

   I might also mention that neither the Kindle or the iPad are suitable for any decent reference works and/or textbooks. Possibly just something confined to ‘my generation’ and before, but when I’m doing serious research, I just like having a stack of books lying around me to I can flip to this passage in one book, skip to that passage in another book, and correlate to yet a third book. But this is probably because most texts aren’t, as yet, digitized properly for such research.

   Posted by Christopher       08/07/2010  at  07:47 PM  

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