A Guide to the Ancient World

that's awesome for the price. even if it's info you can find online, I’m much more comfortable reading in a book for me...monitors give me eye strain fast, i can read books 5 times longer before the strain kicks in.

plus.... i can't take my computer in the bathroom with me....and my wife wont let me take her laptop.
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Grant is the easiest one for me to recommend. He even did a couple of books kind of on coins.

Off the top of my head, Norwich for Venice or Byzantium is great. I guess I am coming up blank for other authors, though I know there are many. Just no other author like Grant comes to mind.

 

That truly is regrettable, we don't have any where I live and I have to go a minimum of 25 miles to find a Barnes and Noble. I am not a read a Kindle or Nookie or whatever type person. I like a book. Books are permanent, that electronic garbage is not. Recently I have read "Flyboys" and "Flags of our Fathers" am now reading "A Higher Calling" and then onto "The Unbroken" - yep all non-fiction WWII. Back about a month ago I read "Killing Lincoln", then "Stealing Lincoln's Body". The Revolution, the Civil War and WWII are my favourite non-fiction reads.

 

I have a Barnes and Noble book store here in town, so that's not a problem. There are also a couple of used book stores here as well.

I use a combination of online, PDFs, E-books, hard copy real books to learn. Works for me. If it's to read a novel or a story, I prefer a book.

 

I just find it difficult on my eyes to stare at a screen for very long, even the Kindle types. There's a visceral pleasure to sitting back in an armchair with a cup of coffee and reading a book.

 

I guess I'm lucky...
I've got two bookstores within easy walking distance (1 kilometer)

 

Another good thing about books is that you don't need to plug them in and worry about killing the battery.

 

What book on ancient coins have you seen in a brick and mortar store? Some used to carry the Sayles series but most of the books I would like to own are only available from online numismatic book sellers. Did ERIC II ever make an appearance in a shop?

 

I have never seen any save for Sayles rarely, and once an old Sear Greek.

Even ancient history is not that great in new book stores, so much so I stopped even looking. Used book stores are even fairly boring to me nowadays as almost any title that they might have I might like I own.

I agree for specialty books its all online nowadays, unless you go to a major coin show and they have a numismatic literature seller.

Speaking of online numismatic literature, I have to go home now. My wife just called me, (mad), and said I have a HUGE box from Kolbe and Fanning! Lucky me!

Btw, I do agree with your viewpoint somewhat about books Doug. There ARE a lot of terrible books out there. To me, the best way around this is to ask someone who owns a book if its worth a rip or not.

 

Myself and John Anthony are lucky to be located about a half hour away from a place called Midtown Scholar Books in Harrisburg, but I doubt he's aware of it yet. It's an academic used book store! I picked up a volume of Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles (regretably only part 1 of 3 for the coins of Cnut in the Copenhagen collection), a monograph on Julio-Claudian building projects, and even passed on the coins volume of the Nemea excavation reports. It was a fun experience, but the selection was still weak, even in a dedicated academic book store. We really take for granted the speed and convenience with which we can buy just about anything on the internet these days.

 

No, I wasn't aware of it - the only time I get to Harrisburg is to go to the airport. But now that I know, it sounds like it would definitely be worth the trip.

 

Might as well try it. Never know what you can find. I got lucky and found this book.

 

=> I agree Gil-galad ... a few years ago I bought my wife a first edition of "The Hobbit" and of "The Sign of the Four" [a Sherlock Holmes Novel, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]

She states => best Christmas gift "ever"

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A copy of a first edition "The Hobbit", I'd say so. lol

 

Here's a peek at The Hobbit (yah, how cool is this book??!! => very cool!!)

 

Ain't nothing more awesome than that for fantasy novels!

 

Cool steve. I bought a coin book once more for book coolness than anything else. Published in 1694, in latin, discussing roman rulers with a coin of theirs at the beginning of each section.

I would post pics but would be afraid Doug would dog me for copyrights.

 

Doug probably remembers when that book came out.

 

Heck probably knew the guy...........

 

Thats awesome!