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Books that come back into style

DiamondSCattleCo

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Well, it looks like clothes aren't the only thing that come back. I've got a set of 1927 encyclopedias that only show 8 planets, and if the world's astronomers have their way, apparently good old Pluto will be downgraded, and our little solar system will be down to 8 planets.

Now if they'd just uninvent plastic, silicon, computer chips and few other non-essential items, I wouldn't have to buy a new set of encyclopedias when the kids hit high school....

Rod
 

skidboots

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My wife spends alot of time in the thrift stores. Seems like we have more Thrift Stores in San Antonio, than regular stores! Anyway, I like to look for good books, (they usually cost .99 for hardcover). I got the best ever. It's short story's of horsetrading done in Texas by the author, when he was 16yr old. It covers horsetrading trips all over the south, with surprises galore. I also saw a copy of the "history of the Y.O. Ranch" at a antique store in Uvalde. They wanted $46 bucks, so I passed, but not before I read a couple short storys. Seems the ranch hands each wrote a short about his experience on this famous Texas ranch. AS you can imagine, they were very funny stories! It's worth your time to look around for old books.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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I love goin to the thrift store. Some of my best finds are there. And they aren't like antique stores where the price is jacked up. You just hafta get there when they first put stuff out before the good stuff is all gone.

I too browse the book section when I"m there, sometimes I find somethin sometimes I don't, but at the one I go to the most...books are 10 cents.
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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I'm a book nut, and thoroughly enjoy browsing through second hand book stores for copies of old westerns, war novels, or anything else that strikes my fancy.

There was a book store in Regina tucked way back off main that I went to a few times. I'm sure it violated every fire standard in the books, but there were 10's of thousands of books (both hardcover and paperback) stacked everywhere. I was in that store a total of 10 hours, and didn't get through half of it. I walked out with 30 books, all for 10 bucks.

Rod
 

nr

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Used old books are a favorite for me though I'm trying to downsize and restrain myself. The best find was in a stack of old books donated for a church sale, one which had a tintype of a family hidden between its pages. No name in the book so no way to get it back to the family which was sad.
 

katrina

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I too bought a box of stuff at a auction and in the bottom was a daybook. And a lady had kept a diary of her days in the early 30s. Was way neat..
 

nr

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katrina said:
I too bought a box of stuff at a auction and in the bottom was a daybook. And a lady had kept a diary of her days in the early 30s. Was way neat..

1930's? And what state?
My mother found a diary once, I believe it was in the attic of a house my folks lived in for awhile. A young farmer wrote about farming in Pennsylvania in the late 1800s and tucked in its pocket was a love letter from the gal he married by the end of the diary.
 

katrina

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South Dakota........ It isn't real discriptive... But I can tell you what the weather was for everyday....
I bought a daybed at an old second hand store. It has the ends that flip down into a bed. I had it recovered and found an old childrens book in a forighn(sp) language. I"m not sure where the book is, but I do know that there is a series of these books... Man I wish I could remember....Let me see if I can find it......
 

katrina

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I found the book that was in the daybed the name of the book is:
O TI(two upside down v's), TO MIKPO APKOY(upside down v with a line across the bottom)AKI.
It has a bear that has it's foot in a trap and a baby zebra there by it consouling it and the bear has a tear in it's eye.
From what I can gather by the pictures is the mamma bear puts the baby bear in the tree and the baby bear doesn't stay in the tree and gets into trouble and the mamma bear recues it with the help of some other animals..
 

nr

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katrina said:
I found the book that was in the daybed the name of the book is:
O TI(two upside down v's), TO MIKPO APKOY(upside down v with a line across the bottom)AKI.
It has a bear that has it's foot in a trap and a baby zebra there by it consouling it and the bear has a tear in it's eye.
From what I can gather by the pictures is the mamma bear puts the baby bear in the tree and the baby bear doesn't stay in the tree and gets into trouble and the mamma bear recues it with the help of some other animals..

Would that be Greek? Mikpo sounds Greek to me. But isn't Aki ?Japanese?
My mother kept diaries and left us a basketful of them and we have one my Grandmother kept though she wasn't one to write the details that Mom liked to include. Neither wrote about what they were thinking unfortunately unless it was some happy event, more a chronicle of daily activities, what they were reading, planting, cooking, sewing.
 

nr

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right now I'm trying to learn a new computer program on a different computer which is trying my patience to the limit :mad: :evil: Things always have to keep changing don't they just when we get comfortable and competent and know where to find what we want to use! The delete key even moves in the opposite direction than the other program :x It must have been nicer in the days when folks just wrote in little diaries in pencil!
 

katrina

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Wow, what program is that?? Hang in there... A challenge is good for the mind... We have been having fun with a extra credit question for Carters alegebra..
1. What is the tallest building in Nebraska?
2. How much concrete is in it?
 

Big Muddy rancher

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katrina said:
Wow, what program is that?? Hang in there... A challenge is good for the mind... We have been having fun with a extra credit question for Carters alegebra..
1. What is the tallest building in Nebraska?
2. How much concrete is in it?


1. Is it a silo?
2.does adobe work as concrete?
 

katrina

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Yup, pretty neat... Did you read where they finished the building ahead of schedule??? Now tell me how many yards or even truck loads of concrete are in that building???
 
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