Books for Christmas?
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Comments (7)Well, color me impressed. I hadn't heard of "High Yield Gardening" before, which is the book plot thickens recommends. I went to check it out at Amazon.com and they don't have any new copies to sell, but they do have used copies starting at 1 cent. Yes, you read that right, 1 cent. As an addendum to my previous post I have now received "High Yield Gardening" and consider it well worth the 1 cent plus shipping it cost in hard cover form, but not a whole lot more. It was probably a fairly 'ground breaking' book in the 70s or 80s, but it is filled with lots of good ideas that don't really go far enough. Raised beds are touted and reasons to prefer a sunken bed over raised in hot, arid, windy climates are discussed. That's good. But it is also filled with variety selections that are either a. no longer available or b. still available, but not widely regarded as all that good. In spite of it's intensive cropping focus, it still deals with labor intensive practices like double digging which are unnecessary in more modern intensive gardening practices. In short this book is something like a time capsule. It presents a wealth of information that was likely top quality 20 years ago, but seriously outdated today. As such I am finding it fascinating to see just how far backyard gardening has progressed in just 20 years. This book also cites sources really well and so I am seeing some of the original people and studies who are responsible for popularizing various ideas still popular today. It is a good book for the experienced gardener who has enough real life experience to separate the wheat from the chaff between it's pages. It has good information for historical remembrance purposes and plenty of folky wisdom. For a beginning gardener looking to read about 'the way' to start out, I can't recomend it though. Other books dealing with intensive gardening methods such as 'All New Square Foot Gardening", while not perfect, offer more modern, less labor intensive methods based upon more recent research....See MoreDo you use 'Books' in your Christmas Decor? Post here, please!
Comments (7)I got a free photo book from Shutterfly which I finally completed. I decided to title it "Christmas" since that's my favorite holiday, and the "theme" for which I had the most pictures. The photob book will rest on my coffee table during the holidays. I'll try to post pics after the invasion of the bins has ended. Right now they (the bins) are winning....See Moreout of the mouth of babes 'I hate books for Christmas'
Comments (40)When I was little, I remember getting a big book of stories that I just loved. And I hated reading. What I loved about it was, it was a big book, probably 8" x 12" and an inch thick and filled with about 100 short stories. I didn't have to read it cover to cover. I could pick and choose which stories I wanted to read. I ended up reading the whole book many times. But to read a book with one story cover to cover took me until grade nine. "The Outsiders" by S. E. Hinton. I read it a dozen times over the years and watched the movie several times. It wasn't until I was in my 20's that I read another book and then became a bookworm with V. C. Andrews "Flowers In The Attic". Since the internet though, I've only read one book cover to cover. In TEN years! I'm working on book #2 right now. "The Iceman: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer" by Philip Carlo. It's a true story. Right now he's 26 and has killed about 65 people. Only 2 were for the mafia so far. The guy had some serious mental problems. But with a father like he had, it's no wonder. You have to read it. It's good. LOL I didn't watch the video posted. But I can well imagine what his reaction was. I was disappointed in my storybook too. But I did eventually read it all....See MoreThinking about making a photo book?
Comments (11)Glenda-- why do you have to print out the photos? These are digital photobooks in which you upload the photos that are already on your computer into the book-publishing software that's online. Are we talking about the same kind of books? Not the scrapbooking-type books where you buy stickers and paper and put it all together yourself on the kitchen table (which is what Bulldinkie's referring to?). I've done that, for my first puppy's life. Fun, but these digital bookmaking programs give you something different. Really nice professional look. There are some inexpensive photo scanners out there that'll have all your loose pictures uploaded in no time (or photo service places will scan photos on a CD -- if you can still find an old-fashioned-type photo place nowadays! They're dying off... unfortunately). I've stuck to Shutterfly for a few books I've done (trips). Too bad that the guy who wrote the comparative analysis didn't include the version made for Apple computers (tho I understand why--not everybody has an Apple). But it's the simplest one I've ever tried. At the time, tho, there were very few layouts to choose from. I saw a friend's Apple book and it looked really nice. Some of the book-publishing software is easier to understand than others. Beyond Apple, Shutterfly is pretty simple, but I found MyPublisher (and I think Blurb, too) to be much more difficult to master (without investing too many hours!). I'm going to mess around with the Inkubook publishing site next to see what that looks like. It got some good marks from this guy's tests....See More- 7 years ago
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