Closing Out My Summer Reading Program -- November 11, 2023

Locator: 46024BOOKS.  

 Sometime in the next month or so, I will start my winter reading program (WRP).

Closing out the SRP - 2023:

The books:

• The Art in Painting, Albert C. Barnes, c. 1925, c. 1965. 
• The Art of Renoir, Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia, c. 1935.
  
• Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace, James T. Costa, March 21, 2023;
• The Wok: Recipes and Techniques, J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, March 8, 2022;
• Before the Big Bang: The Origin Of The Universe and What Lies Beyond, Laura Mersini-Houghton, July 4, 2023; 
• The Maniac (John von Neumann), Benjamín Labatut, c. 2023.
• Why Tammy Wynette Matters, Steacy Easton, c. 2023. A series of books on musicians.
• Grant: Memoirs, In Two Volumes, and Selected Letters, 1839 - 1865, The Library of Congress, c. 1990 by Literary Classics of the United States.
• A History of the Jews In America, Howard M. Sachar, c. 1992. Softcover, $7.00 at a used book shop in Nashville, TX, Rhino Booksellers. 

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Veterans Day

Enjoying a free lunch with my wife at The Thirsty Lion around the corner from where we live, and our favorite watering hole. I'm wearing my USAF leather flight jacket. Those flight jackets were issued back in 1993, or thereabouts. At the time, we were stationed at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, just north of Syria.

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What A Bookstore Can Tell US

Barnes and Nobel has three huge two-sided magazine racks at the front of the store.

This is the front side of the first rack one sees upon entering the store.

The three rows of the technology section: camera and photo magazines; computers, software; and, at the bottom, gaming.

Top two rows:

Bottom row:  

With all the focus on gaming, one would think gaming would be at the top.

With all the smart phone cameras most of us would have thought 35-mm cameras were dead. But not dead, and, in fact, by the number of different magazines, and the prominence of the magazines, it is obvious that the 35-mm single reflex high-end digital cameras are thriving.

And, finally, computer and software magazines. Years ago you wouldn't have an Apple cover but now it's hard to not see an Apple cover.

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Cameras

It's counterintuitive, but one wonders if the Apple iPhone might not be responsible for the resurgence of the high-end digital camera?

And, oh, by the way, comparing an "old" iPhone camera -- the iPhone 14 -- with a high-end Sony camera tells you how far the iPhone cameras have come.