toddhicks209
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Yankee Magazine's Make It Last. It covers making your items last for years.
Any items?Yankee Magazine's Make It Last. It covers making your items last for years.
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Just could not resist picking up Three Michelin Star, French Chef Gerald Passédat´s New Cookbook at a tiny bookshop in Montpellier yesterday .. The U.K. Photographer Richard Haughton is absolutely incredible .. It is in French at moment only. We have eaten at his amazing Restaurant Le Petit Nice in Marseille a few times ..[/ATTACH]
I prefer print books however, online Reading of books surely takes up less room !
My book collection, requires an apartment of their own ! Or a Villa may even be too small. Perhaps a castle !!!
My husband, dad and father in law converted a bedroom in our apartment to a Library just for my gastronomic book collection !!
I just bought another book last night !! I am dangerous in book shops, 2nd hand book shops, thrift store books, flea market book stalls and book fairs ..
Terribly addicting !!!
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Just could not resist picking up Three Michelin Star, French Chef Gerald Passédat´s New Cookbook at a tiny bookshop in Montpellier yesterday .. The U.K. Photographer Richard Haughton is absolutely incredible .. It is in French at moment only. We have eaten at his amazing Restaurant Le Petit Nice in Marseille a few times ..[/ATTACH]
Many different items in your household and motor vehicle.Any items?
I have a very ancient Sony eReader and an equally ancient Kindle, neither of which are backlit, but at the time smartphones were not common and very expensive. The Kindle does has an internet connection though, so I can borrow books from the Kindle library on it. Books which I buy, or are free, I usually look at on my phones, unless they have lots of photos in them, in which case I look at them on my tablet or my laptop. The two phones come in very handy for audiobooks as well as Kindle books, especially when I'm out and about, as I can slip them in one of my pockets (I very rarely carry a handbag, not round here).I actually don't have a "Kindle". I have Kindle for PC which is installed on my laptop and Kindle for Android which is installed on my phone. Maybe if I was still a regular traveller I would invest in a Kindle reader as the battery lasts substantially longer than the two devices that I have (so I am informed).
I suppose everything must go digital, but I was saddened to hear that Pears' Cyclopaedia will no longer be published. The very first, rather bizarrely, was published by Pears' Soap in 1897.
In a rare show of academic zeal during my school years, I once received a prize for Latin. The prize was in the form of a book token and I used it to buy a copy of Pears' Cyclopaedia. Sadly, I no longer have the book, but it was put to good use and it's a shame that it won't be around for much longer.
That's what I thought - but if it was that one I would have thought you would recognise the cover.The one I had must have been around that time.