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My shelf space for books is full so most of my reading these days is online at the Albuquerque Library website. However, the library's online holdings are pretty limited on subjects of interest to me. For instance, for a long time I was wanting to read Janet Malcolm's book, Diana & Nikon, and could not find it anywhere locally. When I googled the title it turned out to be available online at no cost at the Internet Archive website.
Later on the same site I did a search on the term, photography, specifying ebooks, and that turned up over 4,000 titles.
Here is the link to access that list:
[search | Open Library]
 
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Susan Sontag, On Photography. Infamously about as opaque as a solar viewing filter, I have successfully avoided contact with it for over 40 years. Then I came across a (new) copy for £3.99 (normal retail price £10.99) and decided to give it a go.... I'll give y'all a head's up should I actually manage to read it all the way to the end.
 
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Roger Siviter Memories of Steam- The Final Years. Unbeatable combination of photography, steam engines and nostalgia.
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Hi, just to say if you like photography and steam railways , two books bought recently All trains to stop by Hans Steeneken equal if not better than some of the books by Colin C Gifford, plus Taking the train by Michael H C Baker, just my opinion, long out of print but may be able to find on #bay Abe.image.jpgimage.jpg
 
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Photographs by Snowdon. Nice result from a day trip to Scarborough (in winter, when the parking is free) with the express intent of checking out every vintage, charity and second-hand book shop. A tenner from Mrs. Lofthouse's.
 
Susan Sontag, On Photography. Infamously about as opaque as a solar viewing filter, I have successfully avoided contact with it for over 40 years. Then I came across a (new) copy for £3.99 (normal retail price £10.99) and decided to give it a go.... I'll give y'all a head's up should I actually manage to read it all the way to the end.
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I finally got to the end after 3 weeks, 5 or 6 pages at a time. (To say I read it might be an exaggeration, but at least every word formed an image on my retinas). Now, I know the meaning of all the words in the book, and even neologisms that aren't in my dictionary ("polylogue") could usually be inferred, but somehow they are put together in an order that conveyed no information to me. These days you can get computer programs that will generate grammatically correct gobbledegook that you can submit as your sociology thesis. This book predates that, but obviously Ms. Sontag had perfected the art without digital assistance.

So, if anyone out there feels inclined to buy a copy, put the money towards some FP4 instead (other film stock is available).
 
Malcolm, I learned the art of repeating information in several different ways when in college. I always got great grades on my papers by doing this. Perhaps Ms Sontag practiced this with multiple wording.

I tried to read her book 20-30 years ago. I failed. Maybe I should give it another try. After I finish all the Stephen King, John LeCarre and Graham Greene novels I have in my Kindle. And then there's "War and Peace" and "Being and Nothingness" and................





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I just downloaded the audiobook version of a book I read about, oh, 60 years ago.

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict

It's a deep anthropological study of traditional Japanese culture commissioned by the US Military during WWII days when the leaders of the US war effort could not figure out why we were losing the war despite the overwhelming superiority of the US military's resources and manpower. I first read it when I was a freshman in high school and it has changed my outlook on life and culture ever since. I'm very interested to see how my now ancient brain perceives it on a second read...

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Malcolm, I learned the art of repeating information in several different ways when in college. I always got great grades on my papers by doing this. Perhaps Ms Sontag practiced this with multiple wording.

I tried to read her book 20-30 years ago. I failed. Maybe I should give it another try. After I finish all the Stephen King, John LeCarre and Graham Greene novels I have in my Kindle. And then there's "War and Peace" and "Being and Nothingness" and................
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Not forgetting A La Recherche du Temps Perdu (3 volumes, in the original French), Finnegans Wake....
 
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