Tankman

The Ugly American, a wake up call.

And of course the 500 page AutoCAD Bible, tough reading!

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spud42

hp ipaq hx4700 owners manual.

among a lot of others mainly sci fi ...
but a lot of early wilbur smith too....

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Originally Posted by spud42

hp ipaq hx4700 owners manual. among a lot of others mainly sci fi ... but a lot of early wilbur smith too....

I'm not one to question other people's reading habits, but if reading the Ipaq Owner's Manual changed your life, it must be far and away a better read than the DELL Axim version.

J-roc

Siddartha by Hermann Hesse and virtually anything by Kurt Vonnegut.

Zaniax

Fortran IV for the IBM 1130 was the ticket to a whole new world of computer simulations, mathematical modeling, data processing and a new professional career - lasting more than 35 years :approve:

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spud42

Originally Posted by Jogga

I'm not one to question other people's reading habits, but if reading the Ipaq Owner's Manual changed your life, it must be far and away a better read than the DELL Axim version.

you missed the subtelty of my post. it wasnt so much the manual as OWNING the PDA in question. it saved me from carrying around half a ton of paperwork,manuals etc....

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Jogga

This book probably won't change my life: nonetheless, it will mark the resumption of my reading for pleasure, now that my Masters is finally over.

Carl Sagan The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search For God Ann Druyan ed. (2006)

This is Sagan's text for his Gifford Trust Lecture (1985): it's funny, insightful and compelling and anyone interested in Sagan and his brilliance as an educator will love this book.

I also have Sagan's Pulitzer Prize winning, The Dragons of Eden sitting on the (vast) pile of unread books and periodicals. :)

Can't wait ;)

spud42

as i reread this post a whole swag of books come to mind.
so many that ist the authors more than the books that i remember.maybe not lifechanging but interesting and kept me off the streets as a youth...lol

Asimov i think most if not all of his scifi stuff... even though rhe wrote a lot of reference stuff etc.... i have about 100 ebooks of his.
Frank Herbert
E E Doc Smith
Robert Jordan
Roger Zelazny
Heinlen
Edgar Allen Poe
Anne McCaffery
Richard Cowper
Raymond Fiest
in the early 70's my grandad bought me a subscription to "How it Works" a Marshall Cavendish series of weekly mags. made up 9 binders as i remember. i devoured every one of them many times in 1975....in fact i still have them in a crate somewhere, cant bear to throw them out ....
then there were the books we had to read at school..
Animal Farm... very good
some Charles Dickens
a few Shakespear plays...it wasnt the plays themselves or the language they were written in it was the analising etc that took all the fun out of them...
39 Steps.. who wrote that? a bit disturbing for young readers i remember??
and of course the King of them all
J R R Tolkein i think i am on my 5th time through reading them....(only 5?)

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This book is a life-changing read for anyone struggling with some of mathematics more abstract concepts. Timothy Gowers', Mathematics A Very Short Introduction is part of the (obviously enough) A Very Short Introduction series, but that doesn't make the title lightweight.

Thoroughly recommended for anyone who wants to know about curved space or needs to calculate distances in eight dimensions ;)

Nan

Ok, let's put a twist in the cat's tail...
1. How many of these "life changing" books do you own?
2. How many of them have you read more than once in the last 5 years?
3. How many of them do you have on your handheld device?

Personally, books are the worst temptation in life for me, so I'm trying to purchase only books that I know that I will read at least once every 3 years. Some of these are mind candy, others life changing.
Among the life changing ones are everything by William Least Heat Moon, Oliver La Farge, Islandia,
William Butler Yeats, John Donne, Importance of Living etc. Thank goodness for Gutenberg!

P. S.
Yes, I am a librarian and history buff.

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