RV "Coffee Table" Books

[dcmac214]

Coffee table not quite right term but can't think of a better off the cuff.

Looking for RV & camping books, not guides or how-to, but books that you can pick up & put down, start & stop reading on any page.

Got what I could find at Amazon: Camper & RV Humor, Trailerama, Peculiar Place of the RV in American Culture. What else is available? Doesn't need to be new purchase, I've no problem buying good comdition used books.

[dcmac214]

Thanks all for the recommendations!

NRALIFR wrote:
Make your own.
We haven’t done this in a while, but we have used our own trip photos to create bound, hardback photo books that turned out very nice. We used kodakgallery.com, which has since been replaced by Shutterfly. It’s very easy to use, we aren’t even photo hobbyists ourselves. We just use our smartphone cameras, and typically come home with hundreds of photos from a short trip. There’s always a few dozen that are worthy of printing.
The best part is, they’re YOUR photos! About the stuff that you did! When your memory starts to go, you’ll pick up those books and say “Who are these people, why did we buy this book?”
:):)

Neat idea! Will have to get the DiL to get us computer neaderthals started so we can just plug in the pics.

[NRALIFR]

Make your own.

We haven’t done this in a while, but we have used our own trip photos to create bound, hardback photo books that turned out very nice. We used kodakgallery.com, which has since been replaced by Shutterfly. It’s very easy to use, we aren’t even photo hobbyists ourselves. We just use our smartphone cameras, and typically come home with hundreds of photos from a short trip. There’s always a few dozen that are worthy of printing.

The best part is, they’re YOUR photos! About the stuff that you did! When your memory starts to go, you’ll pick up those books and say “Who are these people, why did we buy this book?”

:):)

[pasusan]

Great topic - reminded me of books we have that I could get out one at a time and enjoy while being stuck at home...

We've got a set of National Geographic books with titles like:
Scenic Highways, Hidden Corners, Rural America, Alaska's Magnificent Parklands, etc. They will be great to put on the coffee table and peruse. And yeah - they are pretty old - from the last century anyway. That might make them more fun.

And we also often pick up books from the visitor centers at National Parks - gotta get out the book we got last spring from Sleeping Bear Dunes.

[navegator]

We have books about the places that we visit, we purchased one at the Mesa Verde visitors center that is interesting.

navegator

[K_and_I]

Not RV specific, but certainly travel related:

Atlas Obscura

[T18skyguy]

If your a nostalgia buff, Camping in the Old Style by David Wescott is a good read. This book was on a coffee table at one of the RV parks and I couldn't put it down. With chapters like "Under the canvas" etc. It's how they did it before nylon sleeping bags and our modern RV's.

[2112]

We have Texas Highways magazines, of course.

[wa8yxm]

May I recommend an App for your Android (and possibly IOS) device SimplyE

You create a profile (At the library of New York) you are supposed to need a Library card but. It did not ask me (I have 2 or 3 such cards)

Also if you like science fiction www.baen.com/library Or google baen free library.

Also if you have the kindle app. they have a ton of free books.. A couple summers ago my Internet time was not as great as it is now and I was going through a Cozy Mystery a day.. (Yup I do not so much ead books as Devoure them 🙂 )

I've done a lot of reading in my day.. Used to return paper back books to the library by the boxfull.. you buy the books, Read 'em Box 'em add a pre-addressed post card and it comes back with a count.. Mine was usually 99.

I vauled them at a buck a used book for tax donation purposes (Likely undervalued) I'd do this at least once a year.

[gbopp]

SAR Tracker wrote:
Environmentally sound, humorously written, for those that have always wondered....How to.......

Thanks, it gives me an idea for a gift to give my GS. 🙂

[TurnThePage]

I keep state specific atlases around. And literature that's relevant to destinations.

[SAR_Tracker]

Environmentally sound, humorously written, for those that have always wondered....How to.......

[Dick_B]

The Ride of Our Lives by Mike Leonard ($17 new, $4 or so on ebay) is the story of a former NBC producer who bought an RV and piled his family plus elderly parents into it for a ride across the US. It's has several emotions from humor to eyes tearing up. Probably not worth the new price but definitely worth the used dollars.

[PartyOf_Five]

I like location specific books from our favorite destinations. I'd suggest a particular photographer journalist for Alaska- Michio Hoshino

[Tiger4x4RV]

"Ready to Roll: A Celebration of the Classic American Travel Trailer" by Arrol Gellner and Douglas Keister. 2003. There are used copies for sale on Amazon.