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Gardening Books
While in the local Salvation Army shop today I bought two gardening books. 'Successful Gardening' by Peter McHoy and 'Plants for Water Gardens' by Malcolm Edwards'. One was 70p while the other was 75p.
I know the internet has largely become the predominant information highway,but there's something about having a nice book to read through 
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I love a book Fishy.
Apart from anything else I go cross-eyed if I look at this little computer for too long.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nut, same here
tablet useful for quick references, photos and this Forum then I get the books out 
On weekly visit to local library found 'The half hour Allotment' by Lia Leendertz with Will Sibley, an rhs published book. Extremely interesting and useful read.
Agree with you both, wouldn't be without books
so satisfying, having that packed paper object in my hands
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
And even better when they come through the post, its just not the same on the Kindle!
Agree Lyn. Who was it who said the computer would be the death of the book! (Retorical question - unless you know)
I have to agree with you all. I love the instant answer nature of the internet,but the feel and smell of the paper in a book will keep it from extinction I think. Then there's the snuggling up in bed with a good novel at bedtime
I love paper. A good stack. and pencils, all the Bs.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Do you draw nut? I'm intrigued
No Fishy, I just like the feel of it all
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am currently traveling in the Balkans, with in my luggage the RHS encyclopedia of planting combinations. A heavy book, but also fascinating. Many flowers I encounter n the wild (Crocus tommasinianus, Cyclamen hederifolium, Euphorbia polychrome, ... ) are included.
Nevertheless computers are also fascinating: I found a flora of Macedonia, published in the Bulletin of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. Written in 1918, by W.B. Turrill, a British officer in 1918 (end of World War I), based in northern Greece. Really fascinating, given the difficult circumstances for research at that time. See: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4107426?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104359117893.