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I thought it might be interesting to see what people currently have checked out for doing research, papers, etc. Here is my current list, not including interlibrary loan books.
- Houses and society in Pompeii and Herculaneum / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
- Pompeii : public and private life / Paul Zanker ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.
- Pompeii : an architectural history / L. Richardson, Jr.
- The gardens of Pompeii : Herculaneum and the villas destroyed by Vesuvius / Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
- Etruscan and early Roman architecture / Axel Boethius.
- Buildings in disguise : architecture that looks like animals, food, and other things / by Joan Marie
- The architecture of the city.
- Architecture as art : an esthetic analysis / Stanley Abercrombie.
- Googie : fifties coffee shop architecture / Alan Hess.
- Theorizing a new agenda for architecture : an anthology of architectural theory, 1965-1995 / Kate Ne
- Learning from Las Vegas : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form / Robert Venturi, Denise Sco
- The colossus of roads : myth and symbol along the American highway / Karal Ann Marling ; with an alb
- Buyways : billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape / Catherine Gudis.
- Inventing modern : growing up with x-rays, skyscrapers, and tailfins / John H. Lienhard.
- California crazy and beyond : roadside vernacular architecture / by Jim Heimann.
- The idea of a town : the anthropology of urban form in Rome, Italy and the ancient world / Joseph Ry
- The villas of Pliny from antiquity to posterity / Pierre de la Ruffini?re du Prey.
- Invitation to vernacular architecture : a guide to the study of ordinary buildings and landscapes /
- The architecture of the Roman Empire / William L. MacDonald.
Last time I stopped by the library I asked if there was a limit to how many books could be checked out at once, because I thought I might approach a limit if it were around 20 books or so. The undergrad at the counter said something like "a thousand". I am not entirely convinced with that number, but at least I think I have a ways to go before I am refused any more books.
Good. Since I'm taking Ancient Rome soon, I know where to go with questions. 😀My current list:Landmark Herodotus by StrasslerGreat Persian War and its preliminaries GroteHistory of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great JB Bury(I mostly used journals for this research paper)
I tend to use journals a lot. But because the library available to me is so bad, I buy all of my books. Makes me happy but my wife gets irritated with me finding places to put them. My office is full so I put some shelves up in my basement and will convert one of the rooms into a library room.
There are some books that I have checked out and wish I bought because they are really interesting or important to my larger education. Also, it's crossed my mind to start rounding out my book collection by buying them, but that it could get expensive really fast. So then I check on Amazon to find cheap used books, but then I think about how I could get them for an even better price – free – by checking them out from a library. So I go back to square one. Funny how that happens.BTW the best tool I have found in regard to journal is PDF-Xchange viewer, a free pdf viewer which is much better than bloated Adobe Reader/Acrobat which sucks up resources and always wants to update itself. PDF-Xchange also allows me to highlight text, underline, draw squares, arrows, and other stuff around text....AND it allows me to add annotations to any of these highlighted areas or add any extra text (or images) I want. See attached screenshot for a preview. While I would probably prefer to print out pages and read them off-line, I simply can't afford to do it with the amount of pdf files I have to read for my classes/research. I printed out pages for one class last summer and it was over 100 pages. So instead I just save them to my computer, read them, and take notes through my PDF program.
I am going to have check out this viewer. I download quite a few books from google as PDF's and a better viewer would be awesome.
I buy a lot of books as well if it's something I know is going to be something that will interest me or that I'll use in the future. I had buyer's remorese remorse when I bought my laptop, but know I use it or plan to use it to read the PDF's and/or the ebooks. I figure the cost of the school textbooks will balance out sometime (but I still prefer a book).I would love to own the Cambridge Ancient History, but the cheapest I've seen on ebay were still in the $70/ea range for just one volume. (I think the whole thing is like 11+ volumes)
