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08-17-2009, 11:19 PM   #1
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Soooooo, what's in your "reading room"?

Me, much to the frustration of buds who would come over for a well deserved mid-week night of drinking until our eyes bled, I used to keep copies of Byte Magazine. Now I find there are a couple photo mags but my fav is better than the old Sears Christmas catalogue...the B&H Photo Catalog...

sigh...I guess I really am getting old...hehehe...

OK, fess up...what's in your "reading room"?
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08-18-2009, 10:12 AM   #2
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I have shutterbug (although I already stopped subscription due to many Canon and Nikon than Pentax articles), Photo Techniques and your occasional Gun Digest magazine.
For me..its all about shooting whether camera or gun..lol
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08-18-2009, 10:17 AM   #3
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'VietNam' Magazine, National Geographic and all sorts of assorted classic books I rarely get around to reading.
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08-18-2009, 10:41 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by séamuis View Post
'VietNam' Magazine, National Geographic and all sorts of assorted classic books I rarely get around to reading.
Oh..did anybody say anything about reading??
I just look at the purrdy pictures..
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08-18-2009, 06:22 PM   #5
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I'm collecting The Complete Peanuts books! They come out with the 2 book box once a year and I get that sent here from Amazon US.
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08-20-2009, 08:25 AM   #6
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*looking around this place.* Where to start... Come to think of it, which *room.*

Lots of poetry and mythology, classics, history, some sci-fi, ...no books actually of or about photography, come to think of it. (I always used to find copies of a book I'd end up giving away to students, seems I'm fresh out. What I need is some better reading light.
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08-20-2009, 08:33 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Ratmagiclady View Post
*looking around this place.* Where to start... Come to think of it, which *room.*

Lots of poetry and mythology, classics, history, some sci-fi, ...no books actually of or about photography, come to think of it. (I always used to find copies of a book I'd end up giving away to students, seems I'm fresh out. What I need is some better reading light.
hehehehe....exactly...we all know the offical "reading room" in the house and it's not the den or library. winkwink...

I find I drag my laptop in with me way too often...hehehehe...
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08-20-2009, 08:47 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by brecklundin View Post
hehehehe....exactly...we all know the offical "reading room" in the house and it's not the den or library. winkwink...

I find I drag my laptop in with me way too often...hehehehe...
OMG, your laptop's been flagged........

I usually have a variety of periodicals. Depending on the nature of the visit to the reading room I'll either get through a short article, or the entire magazine. lol
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08-20-2009, 10:53 AM   #9
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I have "the cow who moooooed the world"
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08-20-2009, 11:23 AM   #10
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i just have some antique books and the latest PDN usually. Occasionally I'm reading a paperback but it has been a while.
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08-20-2009, 11:44 AM   #11
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I have "the cow who moooooed the world"
Why does that one scare me?
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08-20-2009, 02:10 PM   #12
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Why does that one scare me?
I think that it scares you because is the book that Chenney gave as a present to George W Bush when they get elected. It is the book that if you read it upside down you end up invading Afghanistan and Iraq
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08-20-2009, 02:38 PM   #13
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Cabelas catalogues (they send me like 50 billion catalogues every year!)

Close second is the Lee Valley catalogues (I signed up for those, god I love their tools!)

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Popular woodworking, wood, american woodworker, model railroader, shop notes, woodsmith. Atlas Shrugged, CS3 for digital photographers.
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My wife, all four siblings-in-law and all four of our parents are tenured college professors. We don't really do magazines, we do books. By actual count on a rainy Saturday 3 years ago there were 3734 hardback books on our bookshelves - they're in every room in the house.

Next to my chair right now are
  • Tamron SP 70-210mm F/3.5 Model 19AH Instruction Manual
  • Niccolo Rising - Dorothy Dunnett
  • The 100 Greatest Combat Pistols - T. J. Mullin
  • The Power of Gold (The History of an Obsession) - Peter L. Bernstein
  • Trains
  • Forbes
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