Blades upon Books - Traditionals

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btb01 said:
I just don't enjoy reading books on a phone, tablet or e-reader. It's like having a digital knife… just doesn't work for me. (Then again, a "digital knife" could be like a light saber, and that would be pretty awesome, but would certainly be frowned upon in this subforum.) :D

As long as they keep printing books on paper, I'll keep buying them that way.
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AreBeeBee said:
Ditto. I do a lot of "screen reading" in connection with work. So when I read on my own time, I much prefer ink-on-paper in place of electrons....

Also, while libraries are great, as many people discover at some point, they discard items that don't circulate often. So: if a book is important to you, get it on paper and keep it.
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I'm in total agreement. However, E-books provide a couple of advantages. First, you can get free copies of titles whose copyrights long expired. Second, as I almost always have my phone nearby, I will almost always have good reading material on hand due to the Kindle app and the books that are downloaded to it.
 
kamagong said:
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I'm in total agreement. However, E-books provide a couple of advantages. First, you can get free copies of titles whose copyrights long expired. Second, as I almost always have my phone nearby, I will almost always have good reading material on hand due to the Kindle app and the books that are downloaded to it.
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The Things They Carried. The best book on Vietnam I have read. Really powerful.


Good points about E-books. My personal issue is that I can't read the text in many print books anymore. I know there are large print versions of many books but it is just so much easier for me.
 
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The knife is a Green River Dadley-pattern (fur trade era design) modern blade with walnut handles. The Russell book is one that any blade-fan would greatly enjoy — besides knives, also includes hatchets, axes, traps, firearms, and all kinds of mountain-man gear.

And the Benny De Voto book is great history from before the time when historians were turned into guardians of PC.
 
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btb01 said:
I just don't enjoy reading books on a phone, tablet or e-reader. It's like having a digital knife… just doesn't work for me. (Then again, a "digital knife" could be like a light saber, and that would be pretty awesome, but would certainly be frowned upon in this subforum.) :D

As long as they keep printing books on paper, I'll keep buying them that way.
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I would hate to admit how many things I have printed off the computer to go sit and read elsewhere, I prefer paper... :)
 
herder said:
I would hate to admit how many things I have printed off the computer to go sit and read elsewhere, I prefer paper... :)
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Never feel bad about printing things to read off-line. After all, they grow trees to make paper, just as they grow wheat to make apple pie crust & donuts....
 
A page from a fascinating and lavishly illustrated promotional book, I was given by a local when I was in Ireland.

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The title: 'Uncovering The Past: The Geology and Archeological Heritage of the South East Ulster Area', published by the South Armagh Tourism Initiative.

But I guess the high production values should be no surprise, given the Irish have a little bit of history producing beautiful books. ;):cool:

(I'm also supposing that the Tackler's Knife would have been a known pattern in Ulster, due to the one time prevalence of industrial linen milling in the province.)
 
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