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The latest batch, comprising his'n'hers reciprocal birthday presents.

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The latest batch. (I'm trying to do these posts before the batches get too big, which means they are more frequent.)

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The latest batch:

The photography book is in response to the recent attempts to capture images of insects in the garden.  My other half wants to learn how to do it better.  Which will probably include a new fancy lens or two.

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 The latest batch:

A friend was having a clearout, so we got a few old classic computer books.  And the ZWO SeeStar User Guide should help us make better use of that telescope.

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The latest batch:

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 The latest batch:

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His'n'hers Christmas presents (including a DVD, for a change)

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The latest batch, before the Christmas batch arrives.

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The latest batch

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The latest batch, comprising his'n'hers birthday presents.

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The latest batch:

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The latest batch:

 

The company who I have been with for over 40 years for insuring house contents is no longer insuring house contents.  So we are looking for a new insurer.  

We have a lot of books (no!)  This causes issues: everyone who is quoting wants to insure them as "antiques", in danger of being stolen.  No, there are a lot of individually not very valuable books (some are indeed old, but not that old, and not rare).  No-one is going to steal these: it would take forever, and they have very little resale value.  We can't be the only ones in this situation, surely?

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The latest batch:

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His'n'hers Christmas presents (oh, there was also a soldering iron and mat, but they're not books...)

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The latest batch before the Christmas presents drop (which means I'm up-to-date on databasing, for a day or so at least!):

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If you follow my book reviews over on my website, you may have noticed several reviews for Great Courses lecture series.  Each course is 12-48 lectures, on DVD, accompanied by a coursebook.  These make great watching while, say, eating lunch.  We wait until interesting courses are on special offer, and have watched many of these, from science and economics to literature and history.

Recently, Great Courses decided to discontinue several of their DVDs, leaving only streaming options.  We dislike this, so have bought up a load of cheap courses while they are still available.  These should last us a while!

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I am beginning to catch up with my book databasing backlog.  Here's the batch from the end of October.

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These are some books we bought in York on the way home from our Scottish holiday in August, some undatabased books I discovered when I packed up my office in October, plus a few maths books related to a potential retirement project I'm thinking about.

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Our Edinburgh bookshops purchases: (yes, I am very behind in databasing new books, but hoping to catch up soon!)

Amusingly, on that one morning we bought two different books, in two different bookshops, by two different Daniel Chandlers.  Neither appears to have a disambiguating middle name.

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 Our Inverness bookshop purchases: