A good thing about browsing in a physical bookstore and purchasing from them, rather than browsing the Internet and having a book delivered, is that you don't accidentally purchase a book you can't actually lift...
I bought 1132 pages on Artificial Intelligence. Not a book I can comfortably hold whilst reading - and if I'd been in a bookshop and found how floppy the paperback is, I might have gone for the hardback...
Right, so probably fundamentals of AI, and knowledge representation and inference. Alan Smaill is a good chap - he supervised my MSs dissertation for a bit while my main supervisor (Chris Mellish) was on leave.
in hardback (a cheap remainder), about a 1000 pages, and weighed a ton. This was when I was working in Feltham so my commute included a 15 minute walk from station to office and I had that book in my backpack with my laptop. I told my colleagues I was reading it for exercise.
Yabbut Ash was actually good, whereas The Naked God only confirmed me in my desire to give Hamilton a good slap. E.E. Smith could have written a better ending and often did.
Well, I was starting to get the tip-off during the previous 2 volumes of tedious torture porn - it didn't seem like there was going to be any good way to get out of it.
I got 1ngi the boxed set of the complete Calvin and Hobbes for Christmas. I managed to carry it from office to car, and from car to house, and after that gave up on lifting it. It was slid from hiding spot to wrapping to under the tree. Somehow it is now up on a bookshelf, and I don't know how it got there. (Presumably by moving it volume at a time.)
I think that Amazon are missing a trick there - they should be trying to sell sheds to the people that buy that, because it'd just about fit into a garden shed.
Surprisingly (compared to the intuitive guess) the whole package amounts to little more volume than the box a washing machine comes in, and less than a fridge.
Of course, as solid paper, it weighs a lot more than white goods.
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Which textbooks is Edinburgh asking you to get nowadays? It used to be Luger and Stubblefield, but I guess that things may have moved on...
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I think that Amazon are missing a trick there - they should be trying to sell sheds to the people that buy that, because it'd just about fit into a garden shed.
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People who bought this many books, also bought BILLY bookcases...
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(and the mention of IKEA reminds me that I *must* loc Plokta)
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Of course, as solid paper, it weighs a lot more than white goods.