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Just finished reading Chris Schwarz book on workbenches. Not sure what to read next.

-- Mike - Antero's Urban Wood Designs http://anterosurbanwooddesigns.com

Not really reading any woodworking books right now, but rather working on Carl Sagan’s “Demon Haunted World”. Good book so far.

-- Every neighborhood has an eccentric neighbor. I wondered for years "who was ours?" Then I realized it was me.

I browse the bargin books at Borders, Ive picked up 10-20 WoodWorking books by varius authors/publishers less than 10$ a piece….

-- Chris From Maryland, If it aint broke, You havent tried fixin it yet...

Two of my favorites:

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-- http://barbsid.blogspot.com/

In my opinion the best joinery book ever.

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Illustrated-Guide-Joinery/dp/1561584010

-- https://www.artisticwoodstudio.com/videos

Currently. RHCE study guide.

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Every woodworker absolutely must read Krenov’s “A Cabinetmaker’s Notebook” and “The Impractical Cabinetmaker” and Nakashima’s “The Soul of a Tree”.

(Mostly for inspiration/philosophical reasons.)

It’s not woodworking, but I’m currently reading a non-fiction book called “Birthright”
It’s the true story of the kidnapping of an Irish aristocrat that inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write “Kidnapped”. It’s very well researched and written. A good book.

-- Kinky Friedman: "The first thing I'll do if I'm elected is demand a recount."

“A Splintered History of Wood: Belt Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers, and Baseball Bats” was an awesome read. You will walk away with a better understanding of the hobby and medium.

-- Jeff , Wisconsin Please...can I stay in the basement a little longer, please!

Finally getting around to reading Freakonomics. I’m enjoying it very much.

-- Optimists are usually disappointed. Pessimists are either right or pleasantly surprised. I tend to be a disappointed pessimist.

Reading the international building code. Anyone sharp stick!

-- Marc

I just started “The Unbroken Chain”, Guenter Wendt’s memoir. He was the guy at NASA who got the astronauts suited up and strapped in. He passed away about a month ago.

-- "A man may conduct himself well in both adversity and good fortune, but if you want to test his character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln

I read a lot of comics, I think I have read most all modern era Batman my favorite. The story lines are a lot more mature and intellectual than you might think. Ok suggestion. Carlos Hathcock The White Feather. Americas best sniper, Vietnam, Bio, fascinating read…

-- There's many a slip betwixt a cup and a lip.--Scott

After working all day on a computer… I am fortunate to be able to read lumberjocks posts!

If you like history; read Bruce Catton’s trilogy: “The Coming Fury”, “Terrible Swift Sword”, and “Never Call Retreat”

This was his centenial series on the Civil War and is widely available at modest cost.

-- "Heaven is North of the Bridge"

I’m kind of burned out on woodworking books. I never read them cover-to-cover but I often reference them when a question/problem is on my mind.

However, I do enjoy reading just for the sake of reading. I like what I call “historical fiction”. These are fiction books but they are in a historical setting and most of the information about life at that time is relatively accurate.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

Thanks everyone for the feedback….

-- Dan ~ Texarkana, Tx.

Woodworking wise, I really enjoyed The Handplane Book by Garrett Hack. Outside of woodworking, I was disappointed by Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford, enjoyed American Buffalo : In Search of a Lost Icon by Steven Rinella, and I have really been into reading about historical mathematicians and logicians, unsolved theorems, and things like that for the past couple of years.

-- Marc, http://www.logicallymarc.com/

Rich:

I think you will like Patrick O’Brien’s “Jack Aubrey” series. Aubrey is a British sea captain during the Napoleonic wars. The series rather closely follows the real life sea career of Captain Thomas Cochrane, a famous naval hero.

Incredibly, O’Brien knows 1805 London and England as if he had been there.

-- "Heaven is North of the Bridge"

I generally read magazines. Woodworking of course, gardening, hunting, antique collecting. I like
magazines with lots of pictures :-)

-- Wayne - Plymouth MN

Last book I read was “Arguing With Idiots” by Glen Beck.
Rich, the film “Master and Commander” is based on the Jack Aubrey series. One of my favorites.

-- You can't trust a dog to guard your food.

I am reading “Crow Killer” the saga of a Mountain Man named Liver Eating Johnson. He would cut the Crow Braves he killed under the rib cage and remove their livers and partially eat them for vengeance. You may know of the man through a movie that Robert Redford starred in, they left the liver eating part out of the story.

-- Ohh mann...pancakes and boobies...I'll bet that's what Heaven is like! ♣ ♣ ♣ ♣

Im currently reading “Invictus”, which is now out on film, a book about the 1994?? world cup rugby match hosted by South Africe in the post-aperthied era. A great background on the life in prison of Nelson Mandela and how he encouraged a nation to dimiss racism through sport.

-- Its not a crack, its a casting imperfection.

My suggestion on something to read, would be any woodworking book that is older than you. I get on E-bay and try to find books that are written before my time. This will let you see how woodworking has advanced and show you how it used to be done before computers. I bought a woodcarving book once that talked about finding wood to carve is easy, just use an old shipping box from the local food store. You would be amazed at what you will learn.

I love reading history books about the old ghost towns and minning camps in the Colorado Rockies. Here in Texas I read about sunken ships and pirate treasures. It just fasinates me ! books on mineral collecting and metal detecting mags. We are a pair of woodworking, construction, treasure hunting, metal detecting ,rock hounds.

-- Terri, Rocky Mountain High Colorado!

I just read for the second time “The Village Carpenter” by Walter Rose.
From Amazon: ”Rose writes of village carpentry as it was practised in Buckinghamshire by his family and their men in Victorian times. These reminiscences touch upon such things as mill repairs, farm and house carpentry, timber buying, work in the saw yard, and making field gates, haymaking tools and coffins”

I’m now looking for George Sturt’s “The Wheelwright’s Shop” for a re-read. Also from Amazon: ” George Sturt’s frank and moving account of his trade as a wheelwright in the late nineteenth century offers a unique glimpse into the working lives of craftsmen in a world since banished by technology. The wheelwright’s shop where he entered business had been operating for two centuries; this chronicle, first published in 1923, is a poignant record of that tradition, written as it was passing into history.”

And I just started “Across America by Motor Cycle” by C.K. Shepherd. I finally found an original 1922 affordable copy after many years of searching.

Live in the past? Who, me?

-- Res severa verum gaudium - True pleasure is a serious business. http://www.folksy.com/shops/TreeGems

I am reading George Nakashima the soul of a tree for the second time.

-- Happiness is being covered in sawdust