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I bought books instead of guns in the early years.

I see that I even have the book on Samworth books by Brian R. Smith. When you start buying books about books you can figure you're hooked.

When I was a kid, our public library had a wealth of books about firearms.

I love the books as much as the guns that I have collected, and without them I wouldn't have learned much about the guns that I have collected.

Too bad more of the old gunsmiths didn't put their thoughts to paper.

So I hope SDH will come out with his next book on rifles and shotguns soon. I need it as an antidote.

Keith was a blowhard, but his experience is still valuable and interesting (one blowhard to another, my wife would say....).

public librarians tell me that gun books are the "most stolen" of any category of library book.

Nice "book cave" er, library, Steve! A treasure house for sure.

"Only showing the 'clean' books, eh?"

My most prized books are the ones that were gifts from friends and the ones signed by the authors.

I am driving my wife crazy with searching through boxes for a particular reloading tool or that one book I want to read again.

I can see you cleaned things up for the photos, just like I did...

I am going to enjoy curling up this winter in my recliner with an old classic book and a Brittany spaniel in my lap and a nice fire in the stove.

I read more fiction for pleasure these days.

Anything new by James Lee Burke will cause me to call in sick and spend the day under a shade tree with a cooler full of cold drinks.

I've consumed fiction at an alarming rate for most of my life. I'm not sure if it's a curse or a gift

"every time you buy a gun, buy a book"

Nice to know I'm not the only one who would sometimes rather read a good novel than go to work...

When I moved into town twenty years ago my friends came and helped unload the van, when they were done they told me next time to loose their number.

I'm a fiction addict also, my sister is a librarian and my cousin is the editor of the Barnes & Noble Review so I get some good recommendations, historical fiction being my favorite.

but an electronic copy Ludwig Olsen's Mauser book or SDH's books wouldn't fly with me.

I had no plans to buy a Kindle but a friend who had a windfall bought all her friends Kindles. Once I've used it I have seen the light or words as it may be. A complete download of a book just takes seconds. You can store books at Amazon and the device has it's own wireless network.

I am still enjoying this thread very much. So many writers & books that I have never before encountered. I shall make a list and head off to the library in Eureka.

SDH,If you decide to start putting your books out in electronic format I suppose I'll finally have to get one.

thinking about Kindling is a long way from doing it,

"We can get fancy after we get good."

My wife introduced me to John D. MacDonald

Can you just get the digitized version of your book from your publisher and sell the file in pdf. format? Perhaps just burn it onto disc?

It looks to me like a sample could be used as a preview. When the potiental customer sees something he likes, he could instantly download the pdf and recieve the hard copy by mail.

Books have been my refuge all my life. To gaze upon my book cases gives me a profound sense of comfort,

Terrific thread.

don't think it will ever come to one or the other. The Kindle will not replace books as TV did not replace the radio. Years ago I drove 150 miles, one-way, to Anchorage to spend time sitting at the Patent library here in Anchorage, now just a click on the name or number and I have a copy of the patent.

This is the here and now. I am an engineer for Honeywell and I may and I mean may print a piece of paper once a day. I don't even have a filing cabinet in the traditional form anymore. All our correspondence and designs are electronic in one form or another. The majority being ProE files, PDF's and email. I check my surface mail box once a week maybe, usually empty.
I do not own a Kindle and do not intend to buy one until the second generation of this type device start to appear. I do have the app on my phone. No books yet cause haven't seen anything I need.
I have a fairly large library of books here at home that I have gathered over my life like many others and if they were all converted to electronic enhanced versions I would sell them in a heart beat because instead of the library being on the shelves it would be in my pocket and instantly avaiable for research. Instantly search able for that word, phrase or name that I know is in there but can't remember what page.

One thing a Kindle is good for and that's traveling. I can't sleep without reading a few pages, and airplanes REQUIRE a book, preferably a long, good one.