Chris Nevard's Blog

I commiserate on the books. I find the more I get to know about a subject - not just railways - the more I need to know, so the more books get sought. With modelling, the devil is indeed in the details, so the more you know, the more confident you can be that someone else won't nuke your latest pride and joy by saying it wasn't like that!

 

Interesting that in an era when there are more alternatives to books than ever before - Internet, DVDs etc - we are buying them so keenly.

Books don't need charging up or batteries. All the trendy greenies should be selling their Kindles, tablets and such, they forget that because of all this technology we use more electricity than ever before, so they are far from green. Books are made of wood, trees grow again. As I sit in bed on my laptop typing this LOL!!

Although I love books, I don't own much of them.

They need a lot of space and collect a lot of dust. Because I'm very allergic I'm very happy with the internet.

Living in the Netherlands internet gives me access to a lot of information about the English Railways.

I'm also very pleased with the RMweb and the response I get on my postings.

 

Love your blog, Chris.

 

Job

The missus books on wildlife and plants are particularly good too, they are huge! Excellent for holding down mountain size stacks of polystyrene. DVDs are useless, far too light!

The secondhand booksellers at shows like Swanley have provided some of my most treasured books, ones that people aquire on their travels and were never for sale in the UK. I have some fantastic books in German, ( on the narrow gauge!), and on Chinese railways that I'd never have got here as they are pre Internet days.

Preserved railways have been a fantastic source too and I never cease to be amazed at the obscure subjects that get published and make fascinating reading. My bookshelves long ran out of capacity and part of three cupboards are also stacked full

I recently 'upgraded' my modelling bookcase (there is no space for them on two full height bookcases in the living room because of the wife's books) from one A4 height shelf plus two others to 3 A4 height shelves because of growing quantities of larger books. I'm on to the third shelf already now I've bound my journals so will have to start being selective! Fortunately people have been kind and found all the out of print reference titles I wanted as presents over the last decade.

All our books used to sit on IKEA shelves...until I started using them for layouts that is...so some in boxes now...

 

Love this new layout Chris...look forward to seeing it come together.

I find it almost impossible to come out of a shop which has any railway books without a bag containing one or more purchases. I now try to avoid some of the secondhand bookshops in the area....