If a kid dont have a computer how they going to do homework.
edited: If you have 14 kids how you going to hook up 14 computers for the kids!
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What are your non-gardening hobbies?
SHARE will have to re-enter the vocabulary.
I don't think they can stop publishing books with real pages because it would lead to a revolution. I do think though that they will replace the paper with another substance which is a good thing I think. I just hope they still smell like books.
Maybe an 'Old Books' aromatherapy scent?
ya, like that New Car Smell spray you can buy...
Ooh, that smell...
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Thanks Victor. Now we know. I always thought the glue was involved too. I also do think that old books should be dusty for ambience.
I have some real old ones. They smell the best.
Book lovers will appreciate this.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-jailed-for-stealing-pages-from-rare-book-1403962.html
sic semper vandalis!
Martha
1835 1ST edition the book of Mormons, leather bound had the 1st 3 pages missing all though page one was still there. The book had severe water damage to the pages, starting on page 1 and right through the whole book you could see the stains. If I remember right 5000 were made.
Price is cheap $120,000.00
I just got back in the last two days from visiting the two branches of two new{?}used bookstores. I was looking for flower arranging books for a course I am going to take. For those of you in Eastern MA, they are the Used Book Superstores. They take in donated books {your organization can participate} and sell them in two lovely brightly lit well organized bookstores, one in Burlington and the other in Danvers. They didn't have the exact books I wanted, but hey, I found several to console myself with while I was there. Monday, the Danvers store had 1/2 price if you bought 5 books. They charge 1.99 for hardbounds so I got 5 books for $5.00. Yesterday, i went to the Burlington store and got three books for $4.00. They have movies for a quarter and some new books too. Lots of kids books.
I need to be curled up on my bed or the sofa to read so I would need a book substitute that can go there. My desktop computer doesn't make the grade. Our library and the Boston Public Library do have thousands of downloadable titles that you can get with your library card. Check out your local library.
Martha
Can't beat that price, Martha! The Kindle can do that.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00154JDAI/ref=amb_link_83626371_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=17F046MXN3S1A21BC5AD&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=469548931&pf_rd_i=507846
Sherrie,
It may not be fair but kids without home computers are told to use the ones at the public library. Libraries are stating this as one of their new purposes.
Which raises the bigger question, if print material is on the decrease (it definitely is for newspapers and magazines), what is the fate of libraries? Will they go digital, shrink, become obsolete or transform?
I think they survive but will look different.
Well libraries are becoming community centers now anyway. All kinds of talks, kid programs, etc. There will be fewer books and probably more computer access. But more and more digital content - books, movies, music, etc., will probably be available by libraries online.
It's difficult to store all the books now---we have a Book& Bake sale every year at the library---gets rid of quite a few of their old stuff, & ours, too.
Yes - that's a major advantage of digital. When I was at Columbia, book storage space was a major problem.
I still like the paper and ink. I read books, magazines & newspapers. I like the way they feel in my hands. I use the library because I cannot possibly store all the books I have ever read in my home.
Martha
I agree, but I think the Kindle is pretty cool. Imagine going on vacation and having all your reading material in that little thing! But I do love books. I have started to collect good books.
Victor--'good books' are ones you enjoy. I mainly read history & biography, with some fiction thrown in, Some fiction, like Pride & Prejudice which I know by heart is handy as I can start at the part I feel 'in the mood' for. My brother & family get books for christmas which I read first. It's a family joke, but by doing so I can sometimes redirect one to the proper person. For gardening, try the $64 Garden. It is a hoot.
I agree, Lucy, but I meant 'collectible' or rare books.
OK I miss Goodespeed's in boston which went out of business.
Iris, do you mean "The $64 Tomato"? GREAT book! I don't read many gardening books (I read history & biography, as you do) but this is one gardening book that I recommend to everyone!
Yes, that must be the correct title--a giggle all the way through.
Loved that book! Try "People with Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening" by Robin Chotzinoff.
A great read! Try "The Tulip" by Anna Pavord about the rise of the tulip as a gardening plant and as a medium of exchange during tulipomania. Also, I am beginning "A Clearing in the Distance" which is about Frederick Law Olmstead the great landscape designer.
If.you are in the mood for gardening novels, Phillipa Gregory wrote two about the Tradescant family. Tradescantia was named for them. They were an English gardener's dynasty. "Earthly Joys" and "The Virgin Earth" are their titles.
Martha
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Here is a Netflix approach to renting books, including textbooks. Interesting.
http://www.bookswim.com/
Martha, I read the Phillipa Gregory books. Enjoyed them immensely. When I saw the name Robin Chotzinoff, I perked up. She is the great-niece of the lady that owned the farm where I grew up and I met Robin as a kid. I will definitely have to look this up. Thank you for the info.
Jan
That IS interesting - especially the textbook rental. College textbooks are obscenely expensive. I feel bad for my student who have to buy them.
Yes, the textbook part alone makes it worth it for students.
I just got back from Barnes & Noble--talk about obscene prices, shop in the kids' dept---I bought 2 books for my GDs & paid $20.00--one is a pop-up dinosaur for Hay-Hay's birthday, the other is for 2yr old Anni---one of the "sturdy kind".
That is ridiculous for kids books....I always peruse the bargain bins and we have 2 great discount(overstock) stores here( I don't know how far north they go)....'Big Lots' and 'Ross for Less' wouldn't usually think they'd carry books but they do.... at crazy low prices , do Christmas Tree Shoppe/Store have books?
Christmas Tree has great book prices, maybe not a great selection.
Textbook rental is a great idea, college texts are off the top.
Does anyone else read magazines from back to front? I don't know why I do it, but I always have. Wierd, huh?
I haven't bought a magazine in a years now. They are way too expensive and full of ads.
I do too!!!!! That's is sooooo funny. I thought it was just me...ya know I think it's because there are usually so many ads in the beginning.
Me three! Don't know why, maybe cause the front is just a rehash of the cover?
I read them upside down.
Whew! Now I feel better!
Tommy - I don't buy them either, but there are lots of them out there to read when I go to the doctor or hair salon, etc. I always go early so I can read up on pop culture! LOL