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Programming Quickdraw: Includes Color Quickdraw and 32-Bit Quickdraw/Macintosh Inside Out by David A. Surovell
The Twelve Caesars (Penguin Classics) by Suetonius
The flute and its problems: Tone development through interpretation for the flute by Marcel Moyse
Flowers and Shrubs of the Mojave Desert by Janice Emily Bowers
The gunks guide: Rock climbs inthe Shawangunks of New York by Todd Swain
American ships of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods by John Fitzhugh Millar
Economics by Paul Wonnacott
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Tagsstscheckisbn (187), philately (47), climbing (43), science fiction (43), stamp collecting (31), stamps (30), flute (30), programming (30), naval history (28), fiction (27) — see all tags
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GroupsClassical Music, Combiners!, English Wikipedia, Free Software, Gardening, Late Roman, Maps and Atlases, Military History, Naval History and Fiction, Nevadans Who Read! — show all groups
Favorite authorsFernand Braudel, C. S. Forester, Gabriel García Márquez, Julian May, Richard Powers, Thomas Pynchon, Kim Stanley Robinson, Neal Stephenson, J. R. R. Tolkien (Shared favorites)
About meSoftware engineer with eclectic interests, very focused on botany right now. Also active on Wikipedia, transcribing what's inside the books... :-)
About my libraryThirty years of accumulation, with a little bit of everything; my goal is a well-rounded library, with at least one book for every subject. I cull a few from time to time.
Lots of computer science from the 1980s, some depth in philately, sailing ships, ancient history, military history, travel, climbing/hiking, and classical flute. An assortment of modern novels; it seems I'm a fan of Thomas Pynchon and Richard Powers. I keep an eye out for older books, but am too cheap to have bought anything rare. :-)
I've read nearly all of it (not counting reference works), even the unabridged Gibbon, which headed off insomnia for two years all by itself!
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I have uploaded a cover for Red Sun Setting: The Battle of the Philippine Sea by William T. Y'Blood. This is from the 1981 Naval Institute Press hardcover edition.
posted by DVanderlinde at 4:11 pm (EST) on Apr 25, 2009
The other interesting problem here is with tagging. It is considerably more anarchic here than the category system in Wikipedia. We know from our WP experience that some people can become absolutely rigid about categories. Professional librarians have all sorts of reference materials about how to do this sensibly, but here things are still random enough that I can't be sure when somebody else has another resource about what I'm looking for.
posted by Eclecticology at 12:57 pm (EST) on Mar 2, 2007
posted by Eclecticology at 3:12 pm (EST) on Mar 1, 2007
posted by mindspillage at 10:38 pm (EST) on Feb 27, 2007