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#1 Nov 02, 2021 7:37 pm
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It's been a great USA trip, seeing family, health checks (good for another 100,000 miles!), buying bits and pieces, and especially: books-books-books!! I love browsing bookstores, especially used ones. This lot will give me hours, weeks, months and even years of endless immersion!
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#2 Nov 02, 2021 7:55 pm
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Love them too. I finished The 'Assassination of Maurice Bishop' on Kindle but bought the book on dead-tree anyway. Gotta have paper!
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#3 Nov 02, 2021 8:05 pm
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Best find this trip was Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - for ten bucks apiece!
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#4 Nov 02, 2021 8:34 pm
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Many years ago I walked out of a used book store with a first edition of Orwell's 1984 for five bucks. Still have it.
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#5 Nov 02, 2021 10:31 pm
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Many years ago I walked out of a used book store with a first edition of Orwell's 1984 for five bucks. Still have it.
Amazing. There's one in DC that I love, plus books they sell all kinds of old maps, posters and obscurata. Andthe people who work in them are always booky-hippyish types, who really love the books they sell - and have read half of them!
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#6 Nov 02, 2021 10:47 pm
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I love books on paper but lately my reading has been on Kindle. The back lighting helps my old eyes and I can read much longer without getting tired. If I really like the book, I buy it on paper after I finish it on Kindle.
I have a copy of 'To Kill a Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee.
Looking at your books there, I see you have a volume by Alison Weir. I have read several of her books about Tudor England. She is awesome.
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#7 Nov 03, 2021 11:28 am
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You surprise me ..... 'sometimes' ..... reading .... 'to kill a mocking bird' .
Better than a library filled with 16 century history. lol.
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#8 Nov 03, 2021 11:44 am
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It's been a great USA trip, seeing family, health checks (good for another 100,000 miles!), buying bits and pieces, and especially: books-books-books!! I love browsing bookstores, especially used ones. This lot will give me hours, weeks, months and even years of endless immersion!
....NH. You must really try to widen your retiring book reading.
Do you want me to suggest other reading material .
Smh.
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#9 Nov 03, 2021 12:54 pm
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It's been a great USA trip, seeing family, health checks (good for another 100,000 miles!), buying bits and pieces, and especially: books-books-books!! I love browsing bookstores, especially used ones. This lot will give me hours, weeks, months and even years of endless immersion!
Lord it is hard to read in Grenada. As soon as you tink you have a chill day, someone calling up, lets go nah man. Ah want to read that Chris Deriggs new book real bad.
Glad you had fun in the good ole USA.
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#10 Nov 03, 2021 1:01 pm
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New Historian wrote:It's been a great USA trip, seeing family, health checks (good for another 100,000 miles!), buying bits and pieces, and especially: books-books-books!! I love browsing bookstores, especially used ones. This lot will give me hours, weeks, months and even years of endless immersion!
....NH. You must really try to widen your retiring book reading.
Do you want me to suggest other reading material .
Smh.
Suggest away!
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