Your Three Most Influential Books

[Cyberman]

I don't know as I can say there have been any individual books that have shaped the me that I am today. I've always been a rapacious reader ever since I learned the art, well before I started school; though the internet has somewhat spoiled my attention span for proper books - hey look, a cat falling over.

So there have been plenty of books that have resonated with what I already pieced together as me. I've read from Marx through to Hitchens, from Wells to Stephen King (not exactly my favourite author, that one).

The only works I can think of to answer the question even loosely would be the various astronomy books by the irreplaceable Sir Patrick Moore, which opened my imagination to the scale of the Universe; and - please don't laugh - the set of Rupert The Bear books with which my parents taught me to read in the first place. Apart from the almost certain fortune they might be worth in a collectible sense (and we still have them), they gave me my love of books and writing, without which I can't begin to imagine what my life would have been like.

[Exian]

Just a heads up for everyone, the [imgfit] tags will scale all images to the same size. It will make supermassive images fit the page, but it will also blow up small images to "fit" the screen, as well. It is generally better to find a smaller version of the image, but if that is not possible, then you can manually resize an image with the following code:

Code:

[img=150x200]www.bewbies.com/bigguns.jpg[/img]

The numbers inside the [img] tag correspond to {width}x{height} in pixels.

Was this directed towards me? I seem to always get responses like this when I post pictures and I always use (imgfit) just to play it safe, because I never know how to tell the image size. Which makes me wonder if there are some cases where those tags don't work?

[SteelCurtain]

Was this directed towards me? I seem to always get responses like this when I post pictures and I always use (imgfit) just to play it safe, because I never know how to tell the image size. Which makes me wonder if there are some cases where those tags don't work?

Directed at everyone, but in response to your post. [imgfit] tags make all images 'fit' the screen. So the smaller images in your post were blown up to the same size as the first image, which was the only large one.

A good rule of thumb if you're using google image search to find images: it shows the size of the image at the bottom of the thumbnail. It's good for images to be under 400 px square or so.

[Exian]

Oh, so that image ended up looking shitty then?

That's good to know. I'll be more discriminate in the future. Thanks Steel!