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Something for the bookcase, Sir?
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Something for the bookcase, Sir?
Virtual meetings spur sales in books for backgrounds
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A company that supplies books for TV and film sets says it has seen a rise in sales for home offices during lockdown.
BBC News
A company that supplies books for TV and film sets says it has seen a rise in sales for home offices during lockdown.
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
I did consider that re my wife who does a lot of online meetings with her school but also has a vast collection of history books covering Russia, Soviet Union, Nazi Germany etc, I toyed with rearranging them in the bookcases opposite the desk in the study downstairs so that her interests were more prominent, however I decided with some somewhat more mature thought that this was possibly not fair re the impression about her it might engender re her colleagues.
My late father's law firm had hundreds of half calf law reports in his office, in floor to ceiling bookcases that covered one curved wall, which he referred to as expensive wallpaper. (They had been accumulating them since the firm's formation in the 1830s, one or two a year.)
My late father's law firm had hundreds of half calf law reports in his office, in floor to ceiling bookcases that covered one curved wall, which he referred to as expensive wallpaper. (They had been accumulating them since the firm's formation in the 1830s, one or two a year.)
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
It's funny. There was a time when I couldn't imagine a home without books. I still have far too many, and yes I was a book snob. I really still don't understand people who don't read.
However in these days when you can get a book delivered in seconds that takes no space and may not even have yet been "published" * I no longer view a lack of bookshelves the same way.
*The publisher Baen will sell ebooks before final proof reading or printing.
However in these days when you can get a book delivered in seconds that takes no space and may not even have yet been "published" * I no longer view a lack of bookshelves the same way.
*The publisher Baen will sell ebooks before final proof reading or printing.
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
I have 'too many' books i.e. not enough yet
I rarely mix with my fellow humans (and work calls are always no video) so I don't have to hide the low-brow stuff lurking on the shelves..
Somebody should come up with fake covers/slip cases so you can hide your James Herbert/Wilbur Smith inside a Tacitus/Balzac/Proust/whatever
I rarely mix with my fellow humans (and work calls are always no video) so I don't have to hide the low-brow stuff lurking on the shelves..
Somebody should come up with fake covers/slip cases so you can hide your James Herbert/Wilbur Smith inside a Tacitus/Balzac/Proust/whatever
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
AleisterCrowley wrote:Somebody should come up with fake covers/slip cases so you can hide your James Herbert/Wilbur Smith inside a Tacitus/Balzac/Proust/whatever
I'm sure that you joke, but the Harry potter books were released in adult covers to hide the fact that you wanted to read a kids book. Likewise Scott Adams "The Joy of Work", had a reversible cover "Company Loyalty: Your Key to Success by Scott Adams, Ph.D.".
https://ew.com/article/1998/09/25/joy-w ... o-workers/
However with an ebook reader nobody can tell if you are reading:
50 shades of grey, by E L James,
or
Shades of grey by Jasper Fforde.
I confess that I read plenty of "trash", mixed in with the more high brow stuff.
Well I say "trash", but if it was really trash it wouldn't be worth reading. I mean stuff who's only reason to read is because it's a bit of fun.
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
There's a Twitter account just for this.
One of the recent ones was, er, interesting: https://twitter.com/BCredibility/status ... 2299593729
Scott.
One of the recent ones was, er, interesting: https://twitter.com/BCredibility/status ... 2299593729
Scott.
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
Urbandreamer wrote:AleisterCrowley wrote:Somebody should come up with fake covers/slip cases so you can hide your James Herbert/Wilbur Smith inside a Tacitus/Balzac/Proust/whatever
I'm sure that you joke, but the Harry potter books were released in adult covers to hide the fact that you wanted to read a kids book. Likewise Scott Adams "The Joy of Work", had a reversible cover "Company Loyalty: Your Key to Success by Scott Adams, Ph.D.".
https://ew.com/article/1998/09/25/joy-w ... o-workers/
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I've got a Kinglsey Amis* book -'The Book of Bond or, Every Man His Own 007' with reversible dustjacket - on the other side it's "The Bible to be Read as Literature'
This is based on an incident in Goldfinger: Bond opens his suitcase and takes out 'The Bible Designed to be Read as Literature ' which conceals his Walther PPK
*Writing as Bill Tanner. Yes, I have the First Edition, naturally.
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
A number of variations on this theme exist,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rasch-Pattern-Wallpaper-Library-Burgundy/dp/B01H71ZD6K
Julian F. G. W.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rasch-Pattern-Wallpaper-Library-Burgundy/dp/B01H71ZD6K
Julian F. G. W.
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
It does pay to check what you might have left on your bookcase before a zoom call, or perhaps BBC interview...
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 93340.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 93340.html
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
staffordian wrote:It does pay to check what you might have left on your bookcase before a zoom call, or perhaps BBC interview...
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-ente ... 93340.html
Yes, I linked to that three posts back.
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
staffordian wrote:Sorry, skimmed through the posts but missed that
Maybe because we were both being circumspect about mentioning what was actually in it...
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Re: Something for the bookcase, Sir?
staffordian wrote:Sorry, skimmed through the posts but missed that
who expects to see a copy of "Articulate" these days?
- easily missed...
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