Book sales / Question

[radiantfracture]

[ETA: Found another sale!]

1. Verso books is having a 50% off sale. sovay, I am eying Frederic Jameson's Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality.

2. Okay, it's not the legendary 10-of-whatever-you've-got sale, but Palgrave is having a 40% off sale on Humanities books Here -- code HUMANITIES20.

The first book that comes up is Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return, which seems promising, although even at 40% off it's still, you know, priced like an academic book.

3. In an unrelated question, where should I get a nice freestanding bamboo (or other) screen to go behind me and shield my messy home while I live my life on camera?

[ETA: The position I have to sit in is weird, and the shape of the Beautiful Shed is weird, and I don't have the patience to build or craft anything, so the screen needs to be something that stands up on its own and can be moved from place to place as the sun moves.]

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Comments

[glinda]

aaaaaaaaah the glory of an academic publisher sale! Thank you! *piles too many books into cart*

[ranunculus]

Some home improvement or hardware stores sell bamboo roller blinds. Here is a link to Home Depot for a manual one, they make them with cord-pull roll up as well.https://www.homedepot.com/p/Radiance-Natural-Cordless-Light-Filtering-UV-Protection-Bamboo-Interior-Exterior-Manual-Roll-Up-Shade-72-in-W-x-72-in-L-3360726E/309817535

[radiantfracture]

Those are nice, thanks!

Because of the weird layout of the house, it has to be something that stands on its own, and I am not crafty (or patient) enough to build anything.

[calimac]

Coding problem - link to Palgrave isn't visible.

[radiantfracture]

Thank you! Fixed one problem and created another. I think it should work now.

[siderea]

I was originally going to do the standing screen thing, then came up with another solution.* I was finding promising leads on Amazon. One of the options some vendors have is a pipe-work tinker-toy-like skeleton, on which one hangs the included fabric dividers, so it is very shippable and very storeable if you want to disassemble it to put it away.

A thing I learned is that there are screen gizmos which attach to the back of the chair, specifically for teleconferences, and they are terrible and all the other telehealth therapists loathe them, so don't do that instead.

* I decided I didn't want to sit at my computer desk for session, I wanted to sit in a comfy chair, so I put a comfy chair in front of a bookcase, and I draped the bookcase with a dark bedsheet**.

** Because it turns out having a visually busy background taxes the video conferencing software and can contribute to lag, and also because it turns out that when I sit in the comfy chair, the shelf of the bookcase on a level of my face is the shelf with all my human sexuality and sex therapy books. I didn't have time or spoons to reorg, so I threw a sheet over it, like one does.

[watervole]

IN the UK, there's a business that sell mobile hedges. They arrive in troughs, and you place them wherever you want them. YOu can hire them for events, or longer.

[radiantfracture]

...I kind of love this idea. Can you rent a hedge maze?

[watervole]

Of course. It's been done. There are events that are willing to pay for a temporary maze :)