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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 20, 2024 15:53:39 GMT
Schiit Happened If you ever want to read a hilarious retelling of how a startup company became a major player in the headphone amp game with products like Ragnarok, Bifrost, Magni/Modi, Magni/Heretic, Mjolnir, Jotunheim, Midgard, etc. (All products I've been reading about for years on Head-fi) then this book is tough to put down. Narrated by comedians apparently but ones who know a ton about what people really need in an amp. Here's the book for free btw on Head-fi pasted right into a thread. www.head-fi.org/threads/schiit-happened-the-story-of-the-worlds-most-improbable-start-up.701900/Would have loved a book cover photo in this comment but doing it from phone is tough. |
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Post by rfan8312 on Apr 21, 2024 1:24:16 GMT
In my hands is a book from the year 1916, first published in 1915. It's called 'A Hilltop On The Marne' by Mildred Aldrich. It's written while the war is still ongoing, probably while Verdun was being fought unless it was written in January or December.
Small book 7 inches tall 4 inches wide. The pages are visibly extremely old. I've realized I have other books with pqges that look like this but I've never held one from the wartime period of 1914-1918. The earliest I've seen aside from this was from the 1920's.
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Post by petea on Apr 21, 2024 7:04:30 GMT
I have a few very old biology and chemistry books from the later 1800s through to the 1920s. Always interesting, but I try not to buy more as won't be able to get in the house soon otherwise! Not much very old fiction though, but some poetry and some general texts including a mid-20s copy of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T E Lawrence and a slightly later book about it.
I find most books difficult to get rid of (except for some more recent paperback fiction which gets passed on to a charity shop) and I even have most of the hard cover-books still from from childhood and early teens (I have a wildlife book that has nearly gone several times, only to be 'rescued' at the last minute!).
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Post by MartinT on Apr 21, 2024 8:26:43 GMT
I have a couple of classic late 19th century science text books, one physics and one chemistry. They pre-date radium and radioactivity, for instance.
I do also have my collection of Leslie Charteris The Saint books, the first of which (Meet the Tiger) appeared in the late 1920s.
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Post by MartinT on Sept 12, 2024 7:53:44 GMT
I'm currently reading "Live Long and... What I Learned Along the Way" by William Shatner. Despite having seen him in interviews and already absorbed how well spoken he is, the book has really surprised me with his eloquence. He has a remarkable way of writing about passion and romance in descriptive prose that is both simple and cuts right to the heart. There are chapters about adventure, being poor, always sayng "yes", his wives, his cast colleagues, love and loss. I don't often read biographies but this one is an absolute joy to read.  |
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