Trees tremble at my name!
I love to read. I've been hooked on knowledge since I watched an episode of Ducktales where Scrooge McDuck says that he owes his fortune to working smarter, not harder. My mother used to bug me all the time about the portion of my allowance I used to spend on books, and that more than 50% of the weight in me moving to university was in processed trees.
The internet has really curved my book appetite, but my hunger for learning has never gone away. It has been a few days since I bought a hard cover howto book, but I recently changed that. While cruising through Costco I found a copy of The Illustrated Professional Woodworker. This book is amazing, and I'm quite shocked at how hard it is to find (go ahead, I dare you). It's packed full of full colour pictures of tools, process and projects in amazingly terse detail. The illustrated part can not be overlooked. I could try to describe what a shoulder plane is, or simply show you one. I plowed through the first few hundred pages (it's easy, there are lots of pictures), and already I've learned a great deal about what I've been doing wrong in my wood working hobbies.
The book was a nice break from all the financial/investing and photography books I've been reading, and I was shocked at what it cost. I figured a large hardcover, illlustrated trade book like that would easily be over fifty bucks, but this bad boy didn't even set me back twenty. A great find, indeed.
