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[I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291209] Di, 27 Juni 2006 12:04
Flesh-eating Dragon  
A long time ago now, I took a photograph or two of my bookshelf. Big
photographs too: you could read most of the writing on the covers.

Now that I have a broadband connection, I thought I'd upload it for
all to see. You see, I don't like it when people think I'm tasteless;
I want them to _know_.

Bear in mind it is _not_ current - new books have since been added to
the fold since the picture was taken and less new ones have retired to
happier planes.

http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/self/bookshelf.jpg

Adrian.
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291227 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 13:41
CeltiKaos  
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:34:31 +0930, 8'FED wrote:

> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/self/bookshelf.jpg
>
> Adrian.

Roger Penrose and Pterry in the same collection. I thought only I was
that eclectic :)
--
Kind regards,

Julian Hall
"I'm only on the planet because I missed the bus home"
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291254 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 14:52
Eric Jarvis  
CeltiKaos lists [at] munged4usenet.removethatbitohandthisbit.kaotic.co.uk wrote
in
<pan.2006.06.27.11.41.25.830832 [at] munged4usenet.removethatbitohandthisbit.ka
otic.co.uk>:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:34:31 +0930, 8'FED wrote:
>
> > http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/self/bookshelf.jpg
> >
> > Adrian.
>
> Roger Penrose and Pterry in the same collection. I thought only I was
> that eclectic :)
>

<Waves>

I suspect it's fairly common. My guess would be that amongst the people
who have books by both will be both the authors.

--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"live fast, die only if strictly necessary"
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291285 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 16:48
Arthur Hagen  
Eric Jarvis <eric [at] ericjarvis.co.uk> wrote:
> CeltiKaos lists [at] munged4usenet.removethatbitohandthisbit.kaotic.co.uk
> wrote in
>>
>> Roger Penrose and Pterry in the same collection. I thought only I
>> was that eclectic :)
>
> <Waves>
>
> I suspect it's fairly common. My guess would be that amongst the
> people who have books by both will be both the authors.

You guess that both Roger Penrose and Terry Pratchett have books in their
personal libraries by themselves as well as the other chap?

Would a published author have books by himself in his private library? In
the work environment, certainly, but I can't really imagine an author
pulling out his own book to actually /read/ it...?

Regards,
--
*Art
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291309 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 18:32
Brenda  
Arthur Hagen said:

<snip>

> Would a published author have books by himself in his private library?

Sure, why not? After all, he gets a number of free copies, and he's unlikely
to have given them /all/ away.

> In
> the work environment, certainly, but I can't really imagine an author
> pulling out his own book to actually /read/ it...?

I've certainly done that myself, so I don't see why it's so unimaginable.

And if TP wants to read his own books for a little light self-indulgent
relaxation, personally I think he should be allowed to.

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291344 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 20:08
alec  
In article <e7qvrq$31d5$1 [at] mud.stack.nl>, dragon [at] netyp.com.au says...

> A long time ago now, I took a photograph or two of my bookshelf. Big
> photographs too: you could read most of the writing on the covers.

The idea of "bookshelf", singular, I find strange. To me, bookshelves
lurk in packs (bookcases), tempting you with titles you "just have to
reread". Just estimating from a quick sample, we must have at least
3000, probably closer to 5000, shelved books in this house. That
excludes the ones boxed in the garages.

When we moved into this house, 26 years ago, we had 10 bookshelves. They
have been breeding ever since. Once in a while, a ruthless cull clears
about three shelf feet. Trauma from this process requires therapy in
secondhand bookshops aand on Amazon, which soon cures the damage.
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291360 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 20:40
Arthur Hagen  
Richard Heathfield <invalid [at] invalid.invalid> wrote:
> Arthur Hagen said:
>
> <snip>
>
>> Would a published author have books by himself in his private
>> library?
>
> Sure, why not? After all, he gets a number of free copies, and he's
> unlikely to have given them /all/ away.

Shelf space - the final frontier? :-)

>> In
>> the work environment, certainly, but I can't really imagine an author
>> pulling out his own book to actually /read/ it...?
>
> I've certainly done that myself, so I don't see why it's so
> unimaginable.
>
> And if TP wants to read his own books for a little light
> self-indulgent relaxation, personally I think he should be allowed to.

Oh, absolutely, I just wondered whether it would happen, as most of us
probably don't equate our work with relaxation. If authors can, that's
great for them!

Regards,
--
*Art
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291363 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 20:49
Arthur Hagen  
Alec Cawley <alec [at] spamspam.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <e7qvrq$31d5$1 [at] mud.stack.nl>, dragon [at] netyp.com.au says...
>
>> A long time ago now, I took a photograph or two of my bookshelf. Big
>> photographs too: you could read most of the writing on the covers.
>
> The idea of "bookshelf", singular, I find strange. To me, bookshelves
> lurk in packs (bookcases), tempting you with titles you "just have to
> reread".

Individual shelves are nifty too, where you don't have the room for a book
case, like above the bed, or instead of the ghastly picture of aunt Vitriola
and her spawn in the stairway.

Regards,
--
*Art
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291386 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 21:53
Brenda  
Arthur Hagen said:

> Richard Heathfield <invalid [at] invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Arthur Hagen said:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Would a published author have books by himself in his private
>>> library?
>>
>> Sure, why not? After all, he gets a number of free copies, and he's
>> unlikely to have given them /all/ away.
>
> Shelf space - the final frontier? :-)
>
>>> In
>>> the work environment, certainly, but I can't really imagine an author
>>> pulling out his own book to actually /read/ it...?
>>
>> I've certainly done that myself, so I don't see why it's so
>> unimaginable.
>>
>> And if TP wants to read his own books for a little light
>> self-indulgent relaxation, personally I think he should be allowed to.
>
> Oh, absolutely, I just wondered whether it would happen, as most of us
> probably don't equate our work with relaxation. If authors can, that's
> great for them!

I should perhaps add that, in my case at least, it's not necessarily for
relaxation, unless I count programming as relaxation. The most recent case
I can recall was a few weeks ago when I needed some code to - oh, it
doesn't matter, call it <foo>. And I couldn't quite remember how to do
<foo>, so I was fiddling around, doodling on the back of an envelope, boxes
and lines, like you do, and I suddenly remembered - "Oh! This is in the
book!" And that was that - reach, stretch, OW!, get up, reach, grab,
riffle, index, scan, ah!, riffle, mutter mutter mutter type type type
bingo, working code.


--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291413 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 22:45
Daibhid Ceannaideach  
The time: 27 Jun 2006. The place: alt.fan.pratchett. The
speaker: "Arthur Hagen" <art [at] broomstick.com>

> Richard Heathfield <invalid [at] invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> Arthur Hagen said:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Would a published author have books by himself in his
>>> private library?
>>
>> Sure, why not? After all, he gets a number of free copies,
>> and he's unlikely to have given them /all/ away.
>
> Shelf space - the final frontier? :-)
>
>>> In
>>> the work environment, certainly, but I can't really
>>> imagine an author pulling out his own book to actually
>>> /read/ it...?
>>
>> I've certainly done that myself, so I don't see why it's
>> so unimaginable.
>>
>> And if TP wants to read his own books for a little light
>> self-indulgent relaxation, personally I think he should be
>> allowed to.
>
> Oh, absolutely, I just wondered whether it would happen, as
> most of us probably don't equate our work with relaxation.
> If authors can, that's great for them!

I can't see me doing it[1]. Although in the unlikely event of
my getting published I would certainly have the book in my
personal library. Just to look at and go "Wow. That's an
actual published book." It's possible the novelty has worn off
in Pterry's case though 8-).

Come to think of it, he might have the SoD books and settle
down with the Ian and Jack bits...

[1]I have occasionally been amused by my own Usenet posts,
when double-checking I'm not using the same joke twice. But
not a whole book...

--
Dave
Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc
http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/sesoc
Suggs against sexism. It's Madness gone
politically correct.
Jon Holmes, The Now Show 26/5/06
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291419 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 22:46
Stacie Hanes  
Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:

> I can't see me doing it[1]. Although in the unlikely event of
> my getting published I would certainly have the book in my
> personal library. Just to look at and go "Wow. That's an
> actual published book." It's possible the novelty has worn off
> in Pterry's case though 8-).

I take mine out and lick them from time to time.

Well, no. But at the conference I attended over the weekend I was asked to
sign one for auction. That was new and weird.
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #291459 ] Di, 27 Juni 2006 22:46
Ssirienna  
"8'FED" <dragon [at] netyp.com.au> wrote in message
news:e7qvrq$31d5$1 [at] mud.stack.nl...
>A long time ago now, I took a photograph or two of my bookshelf. Big
> photographs too: you could read most of the writing on the covers.
>
> Now that I have a broadband connection, I thought I'd upload it for
> all to see. You see, I don't like it when people think I'm tasteless;
> I want them to _know_.
>
> Bear in mind it is _not_ current - new books have since been added to
> the fold since the picture was taken and less new ones have retired to
> happier planes.
>
> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/self/bookshelf.jpg
>
> Adrian.

Intriguing!

We have a similar eclectic mix - but not exact :-)
One day when I'm feeing brave and have learned how to work
such things, I'll post one of our reserves ... I mean book shelves!

Ssirienna

--
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that
English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow
words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways
to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

-- James D. Nicoll
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #292692 ] Do, 29 Juni 2006 16:51
CeltiKaos  
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:53:18 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:

And that was that - reach, stretch, OW!, get up, reach, grab,
> riffle, index, scan, ah!, riffle, mutter mutter mutter type type type
> bingo, working code.

You forgot the swear-curse-mutter-makeupswaearword *hammer keyboard* 'oops
it's a semi-colon - sorry keyboard - where's the glue pot?' :)
--
Kind regards,

Julian Hall
"I'm only on the planet because I missed the bus home"
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #292863 ] Fr, 30 Juni 2006 04:27
Gonzoid the Gonzo Lag  
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:34:31 +0930, "8'FED" <dragon [at] netyp.com.au>
wrote:

>A long time ago now, I took a photograph or two of my bookshelf. Big
>photographs too: you could read most of the writing on the covers.
>
>Now that I have a broadband connection, I thought I'd upload it for
>all to see. You see, I don't like it when people think I'm tasteless;
>I want them to _know_.

Is that all?

;)

The Gonz'
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #292892 ] Fr, 30 Juni 2006 08:47
Belit  
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:27:40 -0400, Gonzoid <gonzolager [at] excite.com>
wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:34:31 +0930, "8'FED" <dragon [at] netyp.com.au>
>wrote:
>
>>A long time ago now, I took a photograph or two of my bookshelf. Big
>>photographs too: you could read most of the writing on the covers.
>>
>>Now that I have a broadband connection, I thought I'd upload it for
>>all to see. You see, I don't like it when people think I'm tasteless;
>>I want them to _know_.
>
>Is that all?
>
suspiciously tidy too *mutters darkly*
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #296922 ] Fr, 07 Juli 2006 15:37
Geoff Field  
CeltiKaos wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:34:31 +0930, 8'FED wrote:
>
>> http://web.netyp.com/member/dragon/self/bookshelf.jpg
>>
>> Adrian.

I noticed the book on Asperger's Syndrome. Are you
dealing with it from first-hand, second-hand or third-hand
experience? (My son has been diagnosed with this condition,
and it's quite likely I would have been too, if they'd known more
about it back in the '60s.)

Geoff


--
Geoff Field
Professional Geek,
Amateur Stage-Levelling Gauge
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #297613 ] Mi, 12 Juli 2006 16:35
stigmov  
On 2006-06-27, Arthur Hagen <art [at] broomstick.com> wrote:
> Alec Cawley <alec [at] spamspam.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The idea of "bookshelf", singular, I find strange. To me, bookshelves
>> lurk in packs (bookcases), tempting you with titles you "just have to
>> reread".
>
> Individual shelves are nifty too, where you don't have the room for a book
> case, like above the bed, or instead of the ghastly picture of aunt Vitriola
> and her spawn in the stairway.

Or like the "book portal" I have around my bed:
http://folk.ntnu.no/stigmov/bilder/100_1403.JPG

Or the high shelves I had in my old flat:
http://folk.ntnu.no/stigmov/bilder/100_0035.JPG
it was a very small flat, but with high ceiling,
so I go a lot of shelfspace by encircling the
rooms with shelves above door height.

--
Stig M. Valstad

"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in
tolerance and free speech," - David Brin
Re: [I] Every detail shamelessly displayed [message #301473 ] Di, 18 Juli 2006 17:04
Mary Messall  
Stig M. Valstad wrote:
> On 2006-06-27, Arthur Hagen <art [at] broomstick.com> wrote:
>>Alec Cawley <alec [at] spamspam.co.uk> wrote:
>>>The idea of "bookshelf", singular, I find strange. To me, bookshelves
>>>lurk in packs (bookcases), tempting you with titles you "just have to
>>>reread".
>>Individual shelves are nifty too, where you don't have the room for a book
>>case, like above the bed, or instead of the ghastly picture of aunt Vitriola
>>and her spawn in the stairway.
> Or like the "book portal" I have around my bed:
> http://folk.ntnu.no/stigmov/bilder/100_1403.JPG

I had a shelf full of books above my bed once, until someone
asked me if I wasn't worried about it collapsing on my head in my
sleep. I said, "Don't be ridiculous," and then could never stop
worring about it from then on. I think I moved my pillow to the
other end of the bed eventually, because I couldn't fall asleep,
staring up at it...

But my shelf was just a flimsy thing screwed into the wall, not
nearly as sturdy as yours. <g>

-Mary

--
The blog I said I'd never write --
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