I'm big on anti-clutter and I carry enough stuff to work everyday. Being able to slip an ipad mini in my backpack with my books on it is PRICELESS!

Yeah, but nothing beats that "New Book Smell". :rofl2:

I'm a bit of a romanticist. I view my volumes of hardbacks like an ancient library of knowledge and stories of distant lands. :rolleyes:

Oh, my dream house will have a library for sure. I never get rid of books.

That would be a tragic waste!

Exactly. But what if I want to read it again? Or lend it to someone, which doesn't really work with a Kindle.

My Dad is 84 yo and loves his Kindle. My Sister and I bought him one for Christmas a while back. He's upgraded to a top-of-the-line model and bought readers for the great-grandkids.

I don't know what this whole reading thing is all about, but sub'd

You can actually lend from your Kindle library if your someone has a Kindle as well.

That's the catch. On the flip side, this way they can't borrow a book and never return it, right?

It's all them letters without pictures. :icon17:

I'm pretty sure you can only do this once per book. Also, there is a two week limit.

:tiphat:

I know about the two week limit, but I'm not for sure about the once per book thing.

wading rather slowly thru: the beatles:all these years vol 1. TUNE IN mark lewisohn...after 120+ pages, john & paul finally meet...only 800+ to go...sigh...

if only the brits could communicate in proper english...

I went back to a favorite book of mine again today, "The River Why", and forgot just how good some of the passages were:

“When people are kids their parents teach them all sorts of stuff, some of it true and useful, some of it absurd hogwash (example of former: don't crap your pants; example of latter: Columbus discovered America). This is why puberty happens. The purpose of puberty is to shoot an innocent and gullible child full of nasty glandular secretions that manifest in the mind as confusion, in the innards as horniness, upon the skin as pimples, and on the tongue as cocksure venomous disbelief in every piece of information, true or false, gleaned from one's parents since infancy. The net result is a few years of familial hell culminating in the child's exodus from the parental nest, sooner or later followed by a peace treaty and the emergence of the postpubescent as an autonomous, free-thinking human being who knows that Columbus only trespassed on an island inhabited by our lost and distant Indian relatives, but who also knows not to crap his pants.”

^
what he said...

Good stuff.. :tup:

entertainment weekly whilst sitting on the throne...moan...

I like reading, I'm not crazy in love with it but if a book catches my eye ill check it out. I just don't have time for it these days.
right now I'm reading:
"what every BODY is saying"
its on reading someones body language, thought it would be interesting to learn body language.
before that, i read "the intelligent investor".. and before that "the millionaire next door. I can't remember past that, but thats what i read for 2013/2014 lol.

Tom Clancy - Threat Vector - amazingly it's about Russia taking over Crimea. The details are different (Russian FSB uses organized crime as secret agents, etc vs real life Russian soldiers in unmarked uniforms) but the overall thrust plays out just like it has in real life over the past couple of months.

I have Origin of the Species on my Kindle. Also, The Road to Serfdom. Never seem to get around to reading them.

A must read if you're interested in Al Qaeda and Bin Laden is "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright. It's the history of Al Qaeda going back to the early days in Egypt and through the days of the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan up to 9/11 and beyond. A great read. I prefer non-fiction usually but this reads like a novel. Hard to put down.

Wright also wrote "Going Clear". It's an investigation of the inner workings of Scientology. Another great read and hard to put down.

This thread.

I just finished reading "To Conquer Hell," about America's involvement in the Argonne Forest offensive in WW1. The beginning had a brief history of General Pershing up to the time we declared war on Germany in 1917. Pretty harrowing.

Those are the kind of books that make you realize how pussified we've gotten since then. I spent some time with a WW2 vet over the weekend and those generations were some hard motherfuckers.

edit- motherfuckers isn't censored?

That's exactly how hardcore those motherfuckers are.. the system can't even censor it.

Our troops today have some horrible **** to deal with, but the guys in WW1 were fighting in trenches. Holy ****. I'm not even sure I can wrap my head around how brutal that was.

The real problem is the DoD is pussifying our soldiers by coddling them. :shakes head:

I think it's more of an issue with society in general than a military-specific issue, but I'm a civilian so I don't know my *** from a hole in the ground.

This is way off topic here, but I'm in it and I see what is going on. I think society is influencing it, but when soldiers can't be made to feel "uncomfortable" by a superior NCO or officer (and I mean uncomfortable like corrective action, not akward) the system has gone soft. You can ask any current NCO and they'll tell you that they've taken any and all training tools away from NCOs. :shakes head:

God forbid the guys we're tuning into ******* warriors get their tender feeling hurt. The guy I hung out with this weekend was in a B-29 over the pacific. I'll ask him if they ever cared about his feelings or self esteem. :rofl2:

real men don't have feels..

You're not kidding. Not only that, but machine guns and high explosives were new, and our leadership didn't know how to tactically deal with them. France was a ******* meat-grinder. Some of the stories quoted from soldiers in the book will make you **** your pants.