Question Of The Day - Monday, September 16, 2019

I'm going to try to type this quick because my laptop battery is low. And I don't like having to make the plug reach from where I am on the couch...



Do you still have old text/reference books?



I am a bit of a book hoarder in general anyway. But a quick peek at my bookshelves says that I have decades old dictionaries. I've also got a shelf with textbooks from college and other reference books I've purchased over the years. They come in handy now and then. I've been searching ebay for a used copy of a reference book for architectural drawing that we used in college. I've got some projects in my mind and it would help to verify how some things are properly done. Its just not a cheap book unless I want a REALLY old one.

I know I could google things (and I do); but sometimes a book is still nice to have. I don't see me parting with these yet.

Sometimes the internet search results are more trouble than they're worth due to some so-called experts not really having a clue lol, so yep, there are reference books in this house too

Nope. I dont remember anything I have read except for my dragon lance novels

Only Feline Vet books-or good math books from the 1990s before they changed the entire way they teach math.

We still have a few books from when DD was in college but that's it. They are in the "to be donated to the thrift store" pile.

Just a few on particular types of pottery or antique furniture. I used to have many others but with so much available online I just never used them.

I have a few "old" books as well. I even have a World Atlas that shows Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia! I think I got them way back in the mid-'70s.

I have a couple of dictionaries and a thesaurus, but I threw out our encyclopedias a number of years ago. I didn't keep my college textbooks.

DreamerRose said:

I threw out our encyclopedias a number of years ago.

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Someone tried to give me an old set of encyclopedias since I homeschool. I declined. They MIGHT have been useful but more likely they would have collected dust. My kids are still young to be using them. They suggested even cutting pictures out of them but that just felt wrong to me even if I don't think we would use them.

So I guess I have some standards.

They get out of date very quickly. It's better to use Wikipeda, which is updated continuously.

Yes. I still have my books, including the late '60s World Book encyclopedia I read cover to cover as a child.

There is some very interesting historical context in them.

"Hoarder" is not a nice term and I'm glad it did not become popular until after my grandparents passed. "Family heirloom" is a much nicer way to describe the possessions that I inherited, which include the journal of a young college girl who was described as one of the most promising young poets to come out of the South(eastern USA) in the early 20th century.

Unfortunately, 1929 happened, so Gran became "the pretty girl who makes coffee, answers the phones, and corrects the boss' spelling" instead.

Willow's Mom said:

young college girl who was described as one of the most promising young poets to come out of the South(eastern USA) in the early 20th century.

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Oh my gosh. I'm about speechless.

I am a bibliophile and have a large collection of books. Roughly half of them are reference books and textbooks. My favorite is my "Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism."

I have a dictionaries and a thesaurus left over from school. I kept them because I can't spell. I did not go to college so I don't have any books from there.

You guys can tell I have never been to college. I am probably the only one here that did not go.

muffy said:

You guys can tell I have never been to college.

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nope, can't tell

muffy said:

I am probably the only one here that did not go.

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Nah. I didn't go to college. Only 1/3 of Americans have a 4-year degree. It doesn't mean anything.

I think my mom kept all the textbooks and stuff. If I had any I already got rid of them.

Furballsmom said:

nope, can't tell

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You are just being nice. LOL.

Willowy said:

Nah. I didn't go to college. Only 1/3 of Americans have a 4-year degree. It doesn't mean anything.

I think my mom kept all the textbooks and stuff. If I had any I already got rid of them.

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Thanks.

Furballsmom said:

nope, can't tell

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Willowy said:

Nah. I didn't go to college. Only 1/3 of Americans have a 4-year degree. It doesn't mean anything.

I think my mom kept all the textbooks and stuff. If I had any I already got rid of them.

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I would have though you did go to college. You seem to be up to date on everything.

muffy said:

I have a dictionaries and a thesaurus left over from school. I kept them because I can't spell. I did not go to college so I don't have any books from there.

You guys can tell I have never been to college. I am probably the only one here that did not go.

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My "schooling" consisted of tech school and some hands on in the Army. This all got me my license to work on aircraft (A&P license). Not college but, it is supposed to equal an associates degree. The tech school was 2 years curriculum crammed into 18 months.We were taught algebra, trig, physics, electrical theory as well as mechanical hands on with engines.
We all get there by different routes.