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Ramble - Using Your Library, You Don't Have to Buy Everything
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- čas přidán 18. 12. 2023
- In this video I talk about how I use my local library system to save me money and space.
Video edited using KDENLive on Fedora Linux 39. Sound clean up done with Audacity.
I also find it better to have paper and weight in my hand. Saw the good old WFB 3rd Ed. and WH Siege. Unfortunately I lost my version of Siege... or rather I lent it to someone years ago. C'est la vie. Unfortunately, in Germany you can no longer find suitable books in the library. New focus...
Thanks for the tip about Project Gutenberg! I’ve noticed that the main search engines are not as good for finding out-of-print books as they once were. 😕
You are welcome. I noticed the same thing re: search engines. Gutenberg isn't perfect, but if you know what you are looking for it can be rather helpful.
I'll do a video response to this at some stage as I have different views that stem from my past experiences and my age.
I look forward to it. As I said, I don't think the library method is for everyone, but it is a resource that is oft neglected.
Some interesting points there. I'm also trying to stop buying so many books with mixed success; Agree that you need rule books. I've bought several as pdfs and then ended up buying the hard copy. As for Osprey, in the past I've joined their website for a month or so and simply downloaded the plates and info that I needed. Once or twice this has also resulted in a physical purchase for subjects that I'm really interested in. The library option doesn't work well for me because I live in a non-English-speaking country and getting English books is a somewhat laborious process. The result is a library room with double-stacked shelves, some of which are beginning to bend under the weight on them!
Double-stacked shelves, Lol. 😏
Was warned about this by a friend who has that problem. He can never find anything. When installing my own bookshelves some years back I made sure they were so narrow that it’s hard to stack anything but the smallest paperbacks more than two deep. :-)
I had forgotten about the Osprey subscription thing. I signed up for that many, many years ago, but didn't really use it enough to justify the cost.
And I totally get that the library option isn't for everyone. I think my major issue is that I feel that there isn't much value in me buying a book for a photograph or plate, and honestly, some Osprey books feel like that. I think in a world where both space and money are becoming more scarce, for some, we have to make tougher choices. I think, though, that as wargamers we have this tendency to accumulate stuff. I suppose I choose to accumulate toy soldiers rather than wargaming books where possible. In a rather reductive sense, a battalion of troops represents a better purchase investment that a book that I only need for a bit of research and then never revisit again.
@@ZenMiniPainting - I’m more worried about my miniature purchases getting out of hand than my book-buying. Books you can put away on the shelf and come back to a decade or more later and still get full value from. I was a Napoleonics fiend in my teens and perhaps half my book collection was Waterloo-related. Then my interests switched and the books sat unread in a closed cupboard for three decades: I nearly sold them. Currently it’s my number one interest again and those books are getting a lot of use.
As for minis, I bought a huge amount of them online during the pandemic, mainly obsolete stuff that’s normally hard to find. To be honest I got into a bit of funk when I realised how big my pile of shame had grown. I’ve now put a blanket ban on any new projects and that seems to have helped save my sanity. As it is, I have only two active periods of interest (Napoleonic and early WW2/Spanish Civil War) and all in one scale 20mm/25mm. The single scale is key as I can use the same terrain, and also play both massed battles and skirmishes.