On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:35 AM, Shoba Narayan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 16:09:19 +0530 > From: Nikhil Mehra <[email protected]> > To: Intelligent Conversation <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [silk] Books and libraries > Message-ID: > < > caabxohj7pfqceqca434+kx1kqqhh5rrrrnl+fuv27vpgqer...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Just hearing that Eloor is still around is a massive nostalgia fix. Thanks! > > > > > I too go to Eloor Library on Infantry Road. The men there know exactly > where each book is (kinda like Blossom) which I enjoy. I also am a member > of Just Books but the staff at my Frazer Town branch isn’t knowledgeable. > > Nikhil: when you return to Bengaluru next, you must visit Atta Galatta. > It is the best bookstore— notwithstanding the old stalwarts on Church > street— in the newly renamed Bengaluru and since I am from Chennai and can > deal with the name change, I can deal with Bengaluru as well. The change > to Gulbarga however is a mouth full and I cannot remember it. > > Don’t know much about naval history books, but I subscribe to this podcast > called “Military History Podcast” which is basically one man describing > (rather dourly but succinctly) different things about military. Stumbled > upon it when I was researching Ninjas. > Thanks everyone for the nice recommendations. I'm close to finishing the "No Time to Hide," by now. Atta Galatta sounds interesting and I must go there to see if there are any Kannada books that I can get. Though Eloor sounds tempting, it is quite far from where I live. Sometimes, I wish there were nice public libraries in India like the US setups. Regarding podcasts, I hear they've been quite the rage since the death of RSS as a subscriber medium recently. But, one thing that I hate about podcasts is that they are not accessible to people like me with hearing impairedness without transcripts. That said, I wonder what would one recommend as a nifty gadget to read ebooks these days ? I'm divided between Amazon's latest ebook reader - Kindle Voyage and Google's Nexus tablet. Cheers, Bharat
