Old books are the only way you can read Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, the Dana Girls etc. as they were meant to be read – from the 1920s!

And Albert Payson Terhune! Lad of Sunnybank! You can still visit the original Sunnybank location and see the gravestones of all those famouse dogs from the 1910s etc. Ernest Thompson Seton (or Ernest Seton Thompson, depending upon the year it was written) – Wild Animals I have Known! The original writer for outdoors adventures!

And and and (oh you got me on a roll) books by Lillian Moller Gilbreth (the real mom from Cheaper by the Dozen – she was the first woman who graduated from the University of Berkeley back in 1902(?) … she and her husband, Frank Butler Gilbreth, are widely considered the Parents of Motion Study (you can get the original videos off of the Wayback machine too!).

Great great stuff.

Enjoy, Barbara

Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach´s last blog post…Thursday Coffee coffee coffee and more coffee

Thanks for discovering another money drain for me. I love books and I’m an indie kind of guy.

And I *luv* the smell of books!

George

Tumblemoose´s last blog post…The Flash Fiction e-book is published

While I love books so much, I regret for not reading them after purchasing,
and taking severe raps from my wife for not reading them. However, possessing some of them makes me seem intelligent. I take a hard look at them on the little rack and be contended.

My time is taken up now by my full time internet connection which glares me in my face each day! And, start reading MwPs….

Thanks for the nice post!
Solomon

Solomon´s last blog post…Ride the crest of the writer’s learning curve!

Melinda´s last blog post…How to Make Lots of Money Online – Fast

I’ll add one, perhaps the most influential one for me:

Style: Toward Clarity and Grace by Joseph M. Williams

I checked and, yes, Biblio carries that title–Biblio also looks like a really good site. Bookmarked it.

You say,

“While the book industry is probably going to be around for years to come”

You know… I’m not convinced of this… I’m not sure how much longer the book industry will be around, at least of the paper kind.

As technology continues to evolve and the kindle becomes more and more mainstream… I wouldn’t be surprised at all if brick and mortar bookstores became something of a rarity as well as paper books themselves.

Bamboo Forest – PunIntended´s last blog post…Tipping Makes no Sense

*goes in*

*types in name of author I liked in high school, and the series of hers that I want to reread*

*blinks in shock*

$1? A single dollar? For pretty much any one of her books?

Oh, they automatically show the books ranked from lowest price? That’s damned genius. My fingers twitched with the effort it took not to grab my purse and start filling the shopping cart with paperbacks.

Here in Tulsa, the best used bookstore is Gardner’s. They have an entire section for used comic books, DVDs, and VHS tapes in addition to rows and rows and rooms and rooms of used books. I love that place, so very, very much.