What are you currently reading ?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Great read, especially the part where he is a prisoner of war.

[Ithoriel]

Honestly, the demise of the high street bookshop won't affect me.

It might when Amazon are the only place you can get a book and it's all e-books at fifty quid a throw

[Techno]

I've listened to loads of stuff over the past few weeks.
Enjoyed "The Long Earth" & "The Long War"....(which I thought I'd hate.)
Just about to start "The road to Jerusalem".....Can't tell from the blurb on the back whether it's a 'true' historical account of 'the great crusader' or fiction.
Craig will know, I expect. 

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

George Gleig's 'The Subaltern' on kindle (account of a lieutenant of the 85th Foot of the late stages of the Peninsular War).

Regards

Edward

[wurrukatte]

Marines by Jay Allen, first of the Crimson worlds series.

pretty good so far.

W

[Russell Phillips]

It might when Amazon are the only place you can get a book and it's all e-books at fifty quid a throw

If that were to happen, then yes, it might. The "it's all e-books" bit wouldn't bother me, since I prefer e-books. I don't believe it will happen, though, for a number of reasons. Amazon are currently the big guys, but I doubt they always will be. Some years back in the US, Barnes & Noble were the big guy with shed-loads of money, and Amazon was the little guy, now it's the other way around. Jeff Bezos himself said recently that "Companies have short life spans, ... And Amazon will be disrupted one day."

Amazon are in a business where it is relatively cheap and easy to set up in competition, especially when it comes to selling e-books. Plus, books have lots of competition, and always will. Even if Amazon were the only place you could buy books, and they only sold e-books, and they charged £50 a book, there's no reason to think that Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive and the like would stop offering out-of-copyright books for free. Which means that every £50 book from Amazon has to compete with loads of free books. They also have to compete with every other form of entertainment available - TV, films, music, (even web forums )

While the demise of book shops wouldn't bother me a great deal, I would be very sorry to see the demise of libraries. Unlike book shops, everywhere I've lived there has always been a local library, and over the years I've spent a great deal of time in them. Nowadays I take my son and daughter to the local library, and I hope the library is still there when they're old enough to go by themselves.

[goat major]

Unfortunately libraries are also facing a lot of pressure Russell. In Lincolnshire the council is proposing closing 41 out of 47 libraries 

I started wargaming through finding book the Wesencraft book in my local library (which is now Leon's local library). It would be awful to think they disappear from communities altogether

[Russell Phillips]

Unfortunately libraries are also facing a lot of pressure Russell. In Lincolnshire the council is proposing closing 41 out of 47 libraries 

Yeah, I know libraries are under pressure these days, and that is a real pisser. I've not heard of any libraries being under threat here, though there is a threat to the local museums. My local council is currently seeking feedback on their budget plans for next year, I sent mine in last week, and I really hope they don't end up closing any museums, though I suspect that they will

My kids and I spend most Saturday mornings in either the library or the museum. It'd be a real shame to lose either of them.

[kustenjaeger]

Greetings

Solzhenitsyn's 'August 1914'.

In relation to the ebook debate I'd looked for it on kindle and not found it, so decided that at some point I would get a second hand hardcopy.  The next weekend I saw a copy on the bookstall at the local church Christmas bazaar for 40p. 

Regards

Edward

[richinq]

Square Bashing rules 

I need to go and find my copy of Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914  to read over xmas.

Rich.

[skywalker]

Half way through Max Hastings "Catastrophe" and I am enjoying it 

[Steve J]

The Fighting Wessex Wyverns by Patrick Delaforce. Just started it and as with his other books very good so far. I bought a load of others for my 50th birthday treat, so have a nice stack waiting to be started over Xmas and into the New Year .

[brummie76]

I'm reading Sharpes Tiger (again) and Jullllian Stockwins "Kydd" series..... with a splattering of Voices from WW1, A great book you can read at any point from any page!

[Techno]

Listening to 'Realm' by James Jackson....Set around the time of Armada.
Really enjoying it
Cheers - Phil.

[goat major]

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. Wonderful stuff !

[Russell Phillips]

The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. Wonderful stuff !

I really enjoyed the Brigadier Gerard stories. :-D They are great fun.

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[Hertsblue]

Half way through Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre, the story behind the "Man Who Never Was" deception. The circumstances behind the fiction were even more involved and fantastic than the film could ever hope to show and reinforce the old truism that people believe what they want to believe.

[Fenton]

I am reading Master and God by Lindsey Davies  ...not a Falco one but really good story set in the time of Domitian

[cameronian]

Rothenberg's 'The Army of Francis Joseph' and Henderson's 'Worth' (both Christmas presents from wife and children but if you wait until they've gone to bed, then verrrrry carefully peel the selotape away from the bottom corner ... )

[marie]

Mr Selfridge...sauce without chips....a must read,
also reading...In search of the Dark Ages-Michael Wood...