My book-buying "problem"

Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Chris C, Jul 6, 2018.

  1. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    Chris, the cost was probably getting towards the area when I would have to think "Do I really need it?". Turns out I did !

    But there again, last month I saw a copy of The Royal Engineers battlefield tour: Seine to the Rhine for about £350 which got my acqusitive juices flowing even though I knew it wouldn't help my research and I could get a scanned copy for about a third the price. Was very hard to resist
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  2. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    JEEP - The 50 Year History.
    Robert Ackerson.

    Mostly post-war, and written in a typeface I find almost unreadable, but some fine contemporary advertising & beautifully reproduced pictures.

    I did not go out for a Jeep book, but, well, charity shops.

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  3. ozzy16

    ozzy16 Well-Known Member

    I made a pact with myself not to buy any more books until I have caught up with the books that I have brought but haven't yet read.
    Anyway I brought this today for a few quid. :wacko::huh: story1.jpg

    Graham.
     
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  4. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Of the books by Delaforce I have read, that one is my favourite :)
     
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  5. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

  6. idler

    idler GeneralList

    A real story would be "Wife rejoices as husband finally reads book that sat on shelf for 27 years".
     
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  7. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I created six feet of sodding bookshelf by aggressive tidying, then two thirds of it was filled by books previously shoved in on top. Now the born again bastard book-buying urge has almost swallowed the rest.
    I reckon I can get another twenty feet in the bedroom. That can be a nice surprise...
    Everything used to fit comfortably in one lovely 'library' room, but then awkward bleedin' sprogs expect their own sleeping space. The swine. Why can't they stay small & cheerfully share rooms.

    Oh, and, errr.. bugger.

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  8. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    I've got one in digs but she refuses to give up the bedroom for a study / library. She only sleeps there about two nights a month.

    I simply can't put all of my books away at once. A goodly number simply have to be 'on display' at any given time - At the moment seven within reach plus a binder with about twenty WD Spare Parts Lists...
     
  9. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    They've written a book about that......the Amazon book description even uses the word 'aggressive'..... :) Possibly you should get a copy?.....

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  10. Rich Payne

    Rich Payne Rivet Counter Patron 1940 Obsessive

    I don't want 'lean'; I want floor to ceiling with a ladder !
     
  11. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    A mate is currently building the entire room & steps thing.
    I want to stab him in the eyes.
    I cannot 'like' this, because the book makes me sad.
    "Improving Customer Services" ? Oh dear me no. Anything I run will have waspish ladies in dame Edna glasses alongside gents in brown lab-coats that glare at you & harumph when you dare to request the wrong thing.
    I used to love those sorts of shops, even while being terrified of them. No need for a complaints system because the rigorous & nasty process of obtaining something always led to the right something.
     
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  12. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    SOE’S MASTERMIND: An Authorised Biography of Major General Sir Colin Gubbins Kcmg, DSO, MC 1 £4.79
    FIRST COMMANDO GENERAL:
    The Life of Major General Sir Robert Laycock KCM, CB, DSO 1 £5.59
    VERY FINE COMMANDER:
    The Memories of General 'Nap' Murray GCB KBE DSO 1 £1.60
    ‘STRAFER’ : DESERT GENERAL:
    The Life and Killing of Lieutenant General William Gott, CB CBE DSO MC 1 £3.19

    Crazy prices from Naval & Military Press, even with p&p I didn't bother trying to resist.

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    For the collection, you understand:
    The General Perspective
     
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  13. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Charity shop peculiarity.
    I definitely haven't gone wrong, it's all completely justifiable for a few pages on airfield tractors. Probably.
    Err.
    Shut up.

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  14. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    If you had said I could have sold you my DB 885 :unsure:

    TD
     
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  15. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

  16. idler

    idler GeneralList

    Why are you worrying? Getting a handful of books on the Centurion simply demonstrates an enviable ability to clearly focus on a specific subject.

    Oh...
     
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  17. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Something I've been trying to get at a non-silly price for years, now secured for a fiver.
    As good as I'd hoped, and a bonus account of reverse engineering an Sd.Kfz.7 to produce the 'BT' half-track that I wasn't expecting to be inside.
    I may even scan the whole thing in properly. It's very good, and a bit fragile.

    An Account Of Our Stewardship
    Being the war time story of Vauxhall motors Ltd.

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  18. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Fantastic find!

    Is that photo with the wooden turret from during the initial development of the Churchill, or the Churchill Gun Carrier?
     
  19. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    It seems to be work on the standard gun tank.
    Just a bit of weatherproofing.

    Nice quote:
    "Those who criticised the general reliability of the Churchill tank were, as a rule, remarkably well-informed, but about six months late."

    Can use that in some modern discussions...
    "Those who criticise the general reliability of the Churchill tank are, as a rule, remarkably well-informed, but about 75 years late"
     
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  20. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    Wow, that's a fantastic early picture then :)

    edit: I checked Mr Churchill's Tank, and it is in there, but incredibly small.
     

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