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Posted: Jun 18, 2013 - 9:02am

Posted: Jun 18, 2013 - 7:53am

DaveInVA wrote:

Because of how fragile it is I'd like to put each page between large plastic sheets (not glued of course) so the entire thing can be read and handled without damage from skin oils etc.

Good idea.

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 3:59pm

winter wrote:

That is so cool! You might want to make sure that's an acid-free bag you keep it in: a lot of plastics are bad for paper over the long term, and it would be a shame if anything happened to that piece of history.

Because of how fragile it is I'd like to put each page between large plastic sheets (not glued of course) so the entire thing can be read and handled without damage from skin oils etc.

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 3:54pm

DaveInVA wrote:

I'm just catching up on reading all the newspapers that were on my front porch. Actually I found this in the walls of my last house that was built in 1764 in Petersburg. General Grants Band Members were using the house at the time this paper got "lost". Its the entire paper and not just the front page. Seeing as its from April 15, 1865 I've been very careful with it and its usually in a huge ziplock bag. Its ironic that it mentions "Jeff Davis" is now in still rebel held Danville and right now I live right behind the very house he was in on that date. They used about a number 2 font because they were trying to save paper because of the war, It even has the classifieds. Fun reading. I took it to the Nauseum of the Confederacy and they said its authentic.

That is so cool! You might want to make sure that's an acid-free bag you keep it in: a lot of plastics are bad for paper over the long term, and it would be a shame if anything happened to that piece of history.

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 3:49pm

I'm just catching up on reading all the newspapers that were on my front porch. Actually I found this in the walls of my last house that was built in 1764 in Petersburg. General Grants Band Members were using the house at the time this paper got "lost". Its the entire paper and not just the front page. Seeing as its from April 15, 1865 I've been very careful with it and its usually in a huge ziplock bag. Its ironic that it mentions "Jeff Davis" is now in still rebel held Danville and right now I live right behind the very house he was in on that date. They used about a number 2 font because they were trying to save paper because of the war, It even has the classifieds. Fun reading. I took it to the Nauseum of the Confederacy and they said its authentic.

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 3:31pm

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 3:11pm

This

and this

and this

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 3:01pm

Posted: Jun 17, 2013 - 2:44pm

Posted: Apr 9, 2013 - 1:49pm

This Book is Full of Spiders (Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It) by David Wong

Posted: Mar 2, 2013 - 1:39pm

Just finished New York by Edward Rutherfurd. Really good read (par for the course).

Posted: Mar 2, 2013 - 8:50am

New car owner manuals - too much! {#Doh}

Gone are the days when you stuck your key in the ignition and just...drove! {#Lol}

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 11:27am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

I hope I didn't wreck it for you with my complaint... but now I'm thinking I need to check it out again and give it another try. A writer I respect, Ed Ward, loved it. I might not have given it enough time to get going (although I was 1/3 of the way into it). Maybe, maybe not.

I'm reading an old Neal Stephenson now, the Diamond Age. For some reason I missed that one, I've read everything else of his. Yes, even the 3000-page one.

Somebody left a bunch of "Jack Reacher" paperbacks up in the Ski Patrol shacks so I've got 4 of those going concurrently. Mostly interchangeable, mostly crap, but total book crack. As mysteries they're really not very good and he always tries to throw in a twist that makes you go "ahhh what?" but you see it coming a mile off. Or it's just impossible. But they're addicting anyway and it's words on paper so that's better than not reading, right? Right?

Nah, I was having trouble myself. I perservered, and it did get more interesting, and I did like characters, but the whole book is basically about just a few days in time.

I like reading on my Kindle because it gives me defs of words I don't understand, and Chabon is quite the wordsmith. The annoying thing is that it doesn't give you pages, it gives you segments.

I agree, any kind of reading expands your minds and stirs your creativity. Readers Are Leaders!

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 11:13am

http://www.amazon.com/Wowzer-Frank-Wheeler-Jr/dp/1612182127

Finished the first chapter last night. So far, it's interesting.

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 10:47am

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 10:34am

hippiechick wrote:

Just finished this

(A little disappointed, I enjoyed his other books more, but he is still a wonderful wordsmith)

I hope I didn't wreck it for you with my complaint... but now I'm thinking I need to check it out again and give it another try. A writer I respect, Ed Ward, loved it. I might not have given it enough time to get going (although I was 1/3 of the way into it). Maybe, maybe not.

I'm reading an old Neal Stephenson now, the Diamond Age. For some reason I missed that one, I've read everything else of his. Yes, even the 3000-page one.

Somebody left a bunch of "Jack Reacher" paperbacks up in the Ski Patrol shacks so I've got 4 of those going concurrently. Mostly interchangeable, mostly crap, but total book crack. As mysteries they're really not very good and he always tries to throw in a twist that makes you go "ahhh what?" but you see it coming a mile off. Or it's just impossible. But they're addicting anyway and it's words on paper so that's better than not reading, right? Right?

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 10:25am

Just finished this

(A little disappointed, I enjoyed his other books more, but he is still a wonderful wordsmith)

Going to start this

She is another favorite of mine.

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 9:59am

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 9:46am

Just finished "Winter of the World" by Ken Follett....Book 2 in a trilogy covering World War 1, 2 & the cold war

Posted: Mar 1, 2013 - 9:42am

hippiechick wrote:

Pretty doggie in your AV!

Thank you!

That's my Allie Oops. :)