My Library just grew again......... 2022 edition

[NARSES2]

Ah yes I seem to remember something in the press at the time

[Rheged]

Oxfam in Hereford:-  "Combat fleets of the World" 2006 edition, because it covers all sorts of ancillary craft;  and the "Eagle Book of Britain's Fighting Services" (1962} which I received as a Christmas present 60 years ago and have bought today purely for nostalgic reasons.

[Weaver]

I used to be a dab hand at Excell but then I changed jobs to one where I don't use it and micro$oft went and changed everything anyway.

It's the sheer frequency with which they amend things that gets me. Most of it is completely unnecessary and is probably only done so they can justify the hoards of programmers that they employ most of whom are only employed so that their competitors can't employ them. I know most IT companies are the same, but MS are the ones who seem to get my goat the most 

Come the revolution boys and girls 

COME THE REVOLUTION!  Microsoft gets my goat because it is always changing things just for the sake of changing them.  Update, after update, after update because they produce unsafe and buggy software all the time.  Linux is marginally better but only just.   Apple is a waste of space.    

I use Open Office, which is essentially a free, open-source clone of old MS Office including old Excel, which I got very used to working at Woodford.

[PR19_Kit]

I use Open Office, which is essentially a free, open-source clone of old MS Office including old Excel, which I got very used to working at Woodford.

Me too, I've had it for ages now, and it works like a charm for me. 

[rickshaw]

I use Open Office, which is essentially a free, open-source clone of old MS Office including old Excel, which I got very used to working at Woodford.

Me too, I've had it for ages now, and it works like a charm for me. 

Open Office is an excellent piece of software.  Pity MS won't learn from it.   

[Rick Lowe]

I use Open Office, which is essentially a free, open-source clone of old MS Office including old Excel, which I got very used to working at Woodford.

Me too, I've had it for ages now, and it works like a charm for me. 

Open Office is an excellent piece of software.  Pity MS won't learn from it. 

But that would mean admitting that they *don't* know everything and that their product *isn't* perfect!

[rickshaw]

I use Open Office, which is essentially a free, open-source clone of old MS Office including old Excel, which I got very used to working at Woodford.

Me too, I've had it for ages now, and it works like a charm for me. 

Open Office is an excellent piece of software.  Pity MS won't learn from it. 

But that would mean admitting that they *don't* know everything and that their product *isn't* perfect!

 

[Weaver]

From WH Smiths:

US Supersonic Bomber Projects by Scott Lowther

It's a softback 'bookazine' and only a tenner which makes it good value. It has drawings for every project (I think) and the drawings are TO SCALE and THE SCALE IS STATED ON THEM.

More info: https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/product/view/productCode/5630/bookazine-us-supersonic-bomber-projects

[NARSES2]

Every time I'm in Smiths I look at the latest Bookazine collection. Haven't seen that one yet, must keep an eye open for it 

[PR19_Kit]

Scott Lowther stuff in WH Smiths? Wow, progress is being made! 

[Nick]

Scott Lowther stuff in WH Smiths? Wow, progress is being made! 

I saw that in Asda on Saturday.

[Weaver]

Just got this: a crowdfunded exercise by Joe Coles, the operator of the Hush-Kit website.



Quality is excellent, with beautiful illustration by Andy Godfrey. Content is a mixture of 'listicles' ("Top 10 Incredible Military Aircraft") and interviews with pilots. LOADS of what-if material too.

Hush-Kit website: https://hushkit.net/
Hush-Kit Twitter: https://twitter.com/Hush_Kit
Andy Godfrey's Twitter: @teaselstudio1
 

Video review of the Hush-Kit Book Of Warplanes by Ed Nash:

[Mossie]

Scott Lowther stuff in WH Smiths? Wow, progress is being made! 

I saw that in Asda on Saturday.

I'm going into town today so hopefully they'll have it in the main branch.  I looked in the smaller one in the station yesterday but they didn't have it.

[NARSES2]

From WH Smiths yesterday 

US Supersonic Bomber Projects Volume 1 by Scott Lowther

Interestingly this is V.1 which primarily covers those more serious designs. The forthcoming V.2 will cover those more esoteric types.

[Weaver]

Two more bookazines from Mortons, this time because they sent me a Christmas discount code: XMAS20. Gets you 20% off + entry into a prize draw for £100 worth of books.

Mortons website: https://www.mortonsbooks.co.uk/home