Show us your library....

[Micdrow]

Awesome. Looks like you could use another book case or two

Thanks what I really need is a bigger room. 40 years of collecting books. Needless to say they are scattered around the house. Wife gets a little mad once in a while but all and all she supports my hobby.

 

[ThunderChief76]

My wife is tolerant of my hobby although the other day I got an eye roll and "is that another book?"

 

[vikingBerserker]

Sacrilegious! No wife means more books and room for books. Just sayin..................................

 

[Mustanglimey]

Quite a lot of them are signed.
Just bought signed James Goodson Over Paid Over Sexed Over here to add to his other 2.
2 books in the photos I keep safely tucked away.
Yep...wife thinks I'm nuts!

 

[Micdrow]

Very cool and great collection of books.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I agree, I love "The World Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft". I've used mine so much it's falling apart.

 

[Graeme]

I agree, I love "The World Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft". I've used mine so much it's falling apart.

Same here!

It was written by Paolo Matricardi.
Dunno if you've seen this one - but Paolo combined all the profiles in that book and the Civil volume...
Great fun to look and compare.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Whoa, nice! Thanks for letting me know.

 

[Mustanglimey]

just had this delivered to my US shipper.
Replace my unsigned copy.

 

[ThunderChief76]

This came in today from the Book Depository.

 

[Marcel]

The shelf I'm most happy with. Most books date from before the war. Oldest aviation book is from 1924. So not all WW2. The little book with the G1 however is from 1942

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Nice, I love that G-1

 

[AMC]

Great books..

 

[AMC]

What wonderful libraries Must have taken years. Some old chestnuts there, brings back memories of buying books by post from W.E.Hersant London.
Must have cost a fortune over years to put these together, is this the picture of an old book collector ....

 

[Capt. Vick]

Sneakers? SNEAKERS!?!?! I used THAT money to buy more books!

 

[Snautzer01]

Sneakers? SNEAKERS!?!?! I used THAT money to buy more books!

 

[Leonidas]

I very much wish that I had all of these in physical form: i.e. the actual books but I don't so here is my Google Drive. I also have some actual books so Ill show those once I am home.
Military stuff – Google Drive
Oh and do keep in mind this is mostly tank stuff but if you look enough you will find planes and stuff

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

My wife is tolerant of my hobby although the other day I got an eye roll and "is that another book?"

Yeah, I know that look. At times, menacing

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Gents you have very impresive libraries, plenty of new books ideas.

I was very fortunate to stumble upon this thread.

I took advantage of your pics and show them to my wife, so I prove her that mine is very small (some +260 including ebooks and PDFs by the incomplete Excel I started to avoid buying duplicates).

Her answer was that I lack quite a bit of them, so I guess that is a kind of encouragement to get some more, when budget allows.

BTW, last time I was able to go to my parents house (due to the f.ck.ing corona and associated mobility restrictions I'm unable to go for some time) I took those photos to start the aforementioned Excel, so they could be considered my library. Some of them aren't pictured but I know that I have them, somewhere.

It could be seem strange to have the books at my parents house yet, but since I lived here and there for some years in rentes homes I kept them there as a safe measure and, since I manage to "lost" some books (not aviation related), I think it isn't a bad idea so far.