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your book collection?

That's a good astrophotography book, but I have to recommend Covington's too if you don't have it 🙂 You have some good books.

I have a few hundred books right now ranging over a lot of subjects, but I'm too lame to have a digital camera in my grasp.
 
good thread, i'll update once i get home

when i have some money i plan to buy all the hugo and nebula winners along with their respective series for a nice SF collection
 
Originally posted by: Descartes
That's a good astrophotography book, but I have to recommend Covington's too if you don't have it 🙂 You have some good books.

I have a few hundred books right now ranging over a lot of subjects, but I'm too lame to have a digital camera in my grasp.
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like the moving up in difficulties on the basics books?

"practical skywatching"
"skywatching"
"advanced skywatching"

😀

actually, those ones arent the greatest of books. not much info. lots of pictures.

most the other books i got are good ones. except the 2 series's on the top shelf of the bookcase. god, what was i thinking *slaps forehead* 😱
 
Originally posted by: Ameesh
good thread, i'll update once i get home

when i have some money i plan to buy all the hugo and nebula winners along with their respective series for a nice SF collection
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make sure you get the star wars figurines and pokemon cards in there too. 😛
 
My bookshelf has been over-run by my DVD collection, so most of my books are in a closet now... I really need to finish the DVD shelf I started 3 months ago. 🙁
 
My book collection in my apartment up near campus:

Unread: Hobbes - Leviathan
Nietzsche - Birth of Tragedy and Genealogy of Morals
Aristotle - The Metaphysics
Nino Ricci - Testament

Reading: Plato - the Laws (plus my textbooks)

Read: Barzel - Economic Analysis of Property Rights
Og Mandino - The Greatest Salesman in the World
George Clason - The Richest Man in Babylon
Hesiod - The Works and Days, Theogony, The Shield of Herakles
Oswald Pratt - You Are Worthless
Thomas Cleary (trans) - The Book of Balance and Harmony
John Gowdy (editor) - Limited Wants, Unlimited Means - a Reader on Hunter-Gatherer Economics and the Environment
Clausewitz - On War
Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Opinion and Judgement, Office of US Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality

And a stack of Foreign Affairs and some economics journals.

It would take me a few pages minimum to list the bookshelves that I have at home.

Cheers!
Nate
 
Originally posted by: Walleye
Originally posted by: Descartes
That's a good astrophotography book, but I have to recommend Covington's too if you don't have it 🙂 You have some good books.

I have a few hundred books right now ranging over a lot of subjects, but I'm too lame to have a digital camera in my grasp.
Click to expand...

like the moving up in difficulties on the basics books?

"practical skywatching"
"skywatching"
"advanced skywatching"

😀

actually, those ones arent the greatest of books. not much info. lots of pictures.

most the other books i got are good ones. except the 2 series's on the top shelf of the bookcase. god, what was i thinking *slaps forehead* 😱
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Haha, yeah. I think the best overall book I've read for amateur astronomy is Dickinson's Backyard Astronomer's Guide. Not a lot new, but it's very extensive in what it covers at least. Second favorite would probably be Norton's Sky Atlas, but that's really not much more than a reference.

If you want an astronomy-related book that's really fun to read, pick up Ferris' Seeing in the Dark if you don't already have it. It's a light read, so you can read it more casually than some of the more focused astrophysics books.
 
I don't have that much space on my server to host the pics, so I'll list some off of the top of my head:

1st Edition Journal of Benjiman Franklin
Farenheit 451
Tae of Jeet Kun Do
The Stand
Complete 1st Edition set of J.R.R. Tolkien, including his lost notes (bought from the publisher)
Complete set of Star Wars books (bought from the publisher)
The Modern History of Japan
Samurai, History of the Warrior
Scottish Clans and Tartans
The Life of the Black Douglass
Poems by Ginsberg
Beowulf
Paradise Lost
The Hanged Man's Song

That's all I can remember off the top of my head, I'll look when I get home. I have 3 bookshelfs full
 
Since I have some time to burn, I'll try to list mine

War and Peace - Tolstoy
Lolita - Nabokov
Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden
Breakfast at Tiffanys - Capote
In Cold Blood - Capote
Music for Chameleons - Capote
Wind up Bird Chronicle - Murakami
Norweigian Wood - Murakami
Iliad - Homer (never finished reading though)
Mayor of Casterbridge - Hardy
Wizard of Earthsea - LeGuin
Stranger in a strange land - Heinlein
Harper Hall Trilogy - McCaffrey
Harry Potter series

and a bunch of textbooks that i wasn't able to sell cuz the publisher decided to release a "new" version even though most of the content was pretty much the same
 
I really need to get mine organized, I have overflowing shelves here, my locker has a couple of hundred in it at work, and I have more in boxes and scattered around. 🙁
 
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