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Aug. 13th, 2011 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedlamsbardSo today I worked out that I now can't buy a non-fiction history book without critiquing the author's scholarship: do they really know what they're talking about? Do they have a degree? Are they teaching or are they popular authors? Are they -- heaven forbid -- journalists? Did they use primary sources? Did they use primary sources in translation or did they read the originals?
Which is to say: I did not buy any history books today. Also because I can probably get most of them at my uni library in two weeks, where (1) I don't have to pay and (2) I have the option of returning them if they piss me off.
And at 30% off, they're really not that cheap, which is the reason I didn't buy any of the knitting books or cookbooks either, just Wheelock's Latin Reader. Alas, poor Borders, I knew it well.
Which is to say: I did not buy any history books today. Also because I can probably get most of them at my uni library in two weeks, where (1) I don't have to pay and (2) I have the option of returning them if they piss me off.
And at 30% off, they're really not that cheap, which is the reason I didn't buy any of the knitting books or cookbooks either, just Wheelock's Latin Reader. Alas, poor Borders, I knew it well.