[PRCo] Re: A Great Brussels Museum Video

[Dwight Long]

Derrick

And if you need to buy what you discover, ABE is one of the better sites as they have access to many of the "old fashioned" book stores.

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Derrick Brashear 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Monday, 18 October, 2010 11:03
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: A Great Brussels Museum Video


  On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:09 AM, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> wrote:
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  > I always just assumed all houses came equipped with book cases. And then my wife would take me along on the 'pumpkin house tours' sponsored by Adamstown Library. Soon became apparent that "us railfans" aren't the norm. Might find a bookcase stuffed with video games or knick-knacks, but real books????? Maybe 10% of the upper class houses on the tour.

  We have a library. The shelves are full. The *room* is full. The
  railroad books are on a different shelf in another room.

  > When traveling, my family can't understand why I want to spend "shopping time" in Borders or Barnes and Nobles.

  Me either. It's cookie-cutter, except *maybe* the local interest
  section. If i'm going book shopping while traveling, it's generally
  somewhere that has something I won't see at home.
  And these days so much of the "local interest" is the Arcadia picture
  books. Not without value: a lot of pictures you might not see unless
  you visited each local historical society. But not much more than
  coffee table books, mostly. In truth, Google Books has been far more
  valuable as it has told me where to look for what I am missing, on
  nearly any topic that suits my fancy, not just forgotten local
  railways.