which book/s do u plan to buy in near future?
as for me i will be purchasing geochemisrty by hunt, and occurances of petroleum by tissot also sedimentary structures by collins.
aprt from them i m also looking foward for “tareekh-e-dawat o azeemat” by maulana abul hasan ali nadvi.
today i ve purchased a book and i m really i don’t want to discuss that book. its name is “ham yaran doozakh” by siddique salik.
plz share what r ur plans for book buying.
I dont plan on buying books, I rarely buy them. I usually go to library or bookstore and skim them there, or relatives buy them and I end up reading them. I dont like the idea of buying a book for so much and only using it once. (I dont do second read-throughs most of the time.) Kabhi kabhi ghareeb houn. smile
Right now I'm reading a book on Arabs.
Just bought my Strategic Management book for class last week. Will buy the next Mary Higgins Clark suspense thriller when it comes out.
munni which book on arabs?
sweet pie do ur stratigic management book includes time management as well?
as today is sunday i m thinking of going to go to old book fair here in karachi and buy some second hand books at half price.
just started reading "A Tear & a Smile" by Khalil Gibran.
i love buying books. the one thing i do go out and actually shop for when i have money to blow.
right now i've got essays by orwell, someguy called saki's collected stories (bought it because the book was huge for 300 rupees and the cover said he wroter like wodehouse) and illiad all three im sure i'll probably never read.
i also just bought a book on distributed operating systems and one on linear programming.
I already have so many books I have no clue what to do with them...I'll proably keep them and give them to my kids...
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i go crazy whenever i enter a second hand bookstore... call me a freak [and i know someone will :o ] but i loooooooove the smell of old books, love their yellowed pages, the tattered edges, the elaborate calligraphic scrolls (sometimes) they have on their hard-covers. If i could, i'd just live in a secondhand bookshop forever..... Islamabad has some wonderful ones.
nothin other than the course books that i need :p
Yesterday, I ordered *The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age,1300-1600 * by Halil Inalcik . Inshallah it will be deivered on Wednesday or Thursday.
It's described as:
Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans, growing to become the most powerful Islamic state after 1517 when it incorporated the old Arab lands. This distinctively Eastern culture, with all its detail and intricacies, is explored here by a pre-eminent scholar of Turkish history. He gives a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial and land policies. The definitive account, this is an indispensable companion to anyone with an interest in Islam, Turkey and the Balkans.
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Yesterday, I ordered *The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age,1300-1600 * by Halil Inalcik . Inshallah it will be deivered on Wednesday or Thursday.
It's described as:
Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans, growing to become the most powerful Islamic state after 1517 when it incorporated the old Arab lands. This distinctively Eastern culture, with all its detail and intricacies, is explored here by a pre-eminent scholar of Turkish history. He gives a striking picture of the prominence of religion and warfare in everyday life as well as the traditions of statecraft, administration, social values, financial and land policies. The definitive account, this is an indispensable companion to anyone with an interest in Islam, Turkey and the Balkans.
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happy readin gmad scientist.
i will be buying two more books today
sedimentary structures and sedimentary petrology both r professioonal books.
i also love bying books, currently memmber of 3 book clubs:) , but now I am reading undulus main ajnabhi by MHT, this book has took a very very long time to read, I useally read very quikly , and i am also reading kalesia aur agg by Naseem Hijazi.
In one week i ll get a book by danish writer , I think the name is*Pope of India* it is not about India but about south america, the spanish conquers, and natives, based on some autentic facts. Well, tell you more , when i get it.
Undulus maiN ajnabi abhi tukk khatam naheeN kee:smack:
btw: Kaleesaa aur aag 
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Islamabad has some wonderful ones.
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I am yet to come across a city in Pakistan that has those kind of bookstores..
Karachi certainly doesnt. Lahore, to the extent I know it, doesnt.
There are a small handful scattered all over Islamabad, IF i am not mistaken. Sorry don't remember their names nor even the plaza names where they're located. But they're delightful places, so many precious and interesting books stacked piles high - the smell of old books is so pervasive. You can even find some rare first editions, IF you're lucky. Maybe some Islooites could help you out with a few names.. i've been to some when i was last in Islamabad but sorry don't remember where they were located. i'll try to find out the names if possible.
oh..i meant no other city in Pakistan..
practically the only thing about islamabad I miss are the bookshops.
oh sorry, i misunderstood your meaning.
While i'm on the topic - you don't find decent secondhand bookstores in Canada, 'least not where i live. i hate it. We have loads of the major bookstore chains, but very few of the small, independently-owned, old, genuine secondhand bookstores. It's a very poor indicator for a city, i think... if they have stupid cafes everywhere, least they could do is make a secondhand bookstore on every corner. :o
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oh sorry, i misunderstood your meaning.
While i'm on the topic - you don't find decent secondhand bookstores in Canada, 'least not where i live. i hate it. We have loads of the major bookstore chains, but very few of the small, independently-owned, old, genuine secondhand bookstores. It's a very poor indicator for a city, i think... if they have stupid cafes everywhere, least they could do is make a secondhand bookstore on every corner. :o
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Not a bad idea...Give me a small rundown of the stats of how good of a business it would be if someone opened up a small second hand bookstore and I'd open one up myself...I am kind of sick of living in the States anyway...I was thinking of moving to Europe or the Middle East, wouldn't mind Canada either...And as far as business is concerned, what better business could there be that imparts knowledge to others...Hmmm.
Ravage: You should try going to the Urdu Bazar in Karachi...You'd find books, manuscripts and documents there which you won't find anywhere in the world...It is said to be one of the oldest and most varied source of books after the original Urdu Bazar in Delhi...
undulus main ajnabhi and kalesia aur agg BOTH Zabardast… :k:
MaiN normaly books Buy naheeN karta… Churata hooN… 
Ilm ki chori 