From: Reginald Vernon <regvernon-AT-yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 25 Sep 2006 18:20:59 UTC   (03:20:59 PM in author's locale)
To: The Graphics List <graphics-AT-lists.graphicslist.org>

The Jewish Wars - Josephus - tranlated by Williamson (Penguin Books)
James the brother of Jesus - Eisenmann
a new (second-hand) acquisition - a volume of biographical portraits by Leon Trotsky
but then, I'm not actively involved in graphics at the moment and won't be until I can build a new client list after I've retired in December. My current post is as far removed from graphics as it could be - the nearest approximation is 'graphs' as I'm mainly involved with management information research and statistics.

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Subject: RE: So, what are you reading??

I've cancelled my subscription to Creativity and started reading Folio.
The magazines have piled up. I miss reading. :-(

On Mon, September 25, 2006 8:36 am, Anabella Wewer said:
> A while ago, as a follow up to Michael's (??) question, someone asked
> what other books were around our desks... It was such a huge question
> for me that I couldn't answer it. I don't recall anyone else doing so
> either. I think I am going through a mid-career crisis... Perhaps
> because I am largely designing for the web I just really miss the
> paper and the smell of the ink (though not the 2 am press checks...),
> but it not being practical to "go back" at this point, I've taken up
> perhaps too many other interests that bring me back in touch with the
> raw materials (knitting, mosaics, pottery), so my books are really
> out of control in quantities and way too varied to have answered the
> question in a few sentences. And even for work, the books are all
> over the place -- whales, kids games, dinosaurs, pilots, all over! I
> guess they center around content, more than around design, though
> there is a fair number of them on human interfaces and information
> architecture.
>
> But... it is renewal time for a few of the classics, and I find I am
> not reading them as much as I used to, which lead me to think about
> what you folks might be reading in terms of periodicals. I rarely
> ever go back to look through the magazines after the current issue
> anymore, which I used to do, and I think there might be about 6 of
> the latest issues in my reading pile, still unread. Keeping up with
> the industry blogs, and having so much technology and visual candy to
> look at on a daily basis, Print, Comm Arts and even How (which is an
> easier read), have been left on the pile with more frequency.
>
> So... what are you folks reading? Are blogs taking the place of the
> publications in fields other than the technology news? Have you all
> renewed your subscriptions to Print, Comm Arts, ID, How, etc??
>
> - Anabella
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