À hora de almoço de um dia de maio que tinha muito pouco de primaveril, fotografei o Miguel a ler no jardim do Palácio de Cristal, esse lugar no Porto que tantos leitores e tanto assunto tem fornecido ao Acordo Fotográfico. O Miguel é mestrando em Física Teórica e naquele início de tarde estudava para a disciplina de Complementos de Física da Matéria Condensada, um assunto que requer persistência e tempo para ser entendido, mas sobre o qual há já muitos autores portugueses a escrever, o que facilita o acesso à informação. Ainda assim, o livro que lia não era português, mas sim uma edição indiana de "Solid State Physics" com a chancela da Cengage Learning. Disse-me o Miguel que o livro em si, enquanto objeto, deixava muito a desejar, sobretudo porque o papel era de má qualidade, o que de início dificultou a leitura. Depois acostumou-se. É que aquela era a edição mais barata que tinha encontrado através do Bookfinder.com, um serviço online que procura o melhor preço por entre os 150 milhões de livros novos e usados à venda na internet.
At lunchtime of a day in May that had very few of spring, I photographed Miguel reading at the Palácio de Cristal garden, the place in Porto that has provided so many readers and so many topics to Acordo Fotográfico. Miguel is master's in Theoretical Physics and in that beginning of the afternoon he was studying Complements of Condensed Matter in Physics, a subject that requires persistence and time to be understood, but about which there are already many Portuguese authors to write, which facilitates the access to information. Still, the book he was reading wasn't Portuguese, but an Indian edition of "Solid State Physics" with the seal of Cengage Learning. Miguel told me that the book, as an object, wasn't very good, mostly because the paper was of poor quality, which, at first, made the reading more difficult. But he had to get used to it once this was the cheaper edition he had found through Bookfinder.com, an online service that finds the best price among 150 million of new and used books available for sale on the Internet.
Translated by Marisa Silva
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At lunchtime of a day in May that had very few of spring, I photographed Miguel reading at the Palácio de Cristal garden, the place in Porto that has provided so many readers and so many topics to Acordo Fotográfico. Miguel is master's in Theoretical Physics and in that beginning of the afternoon he was studying Complements of Condensed Matter in Physics, a subject that requires persistence and time to be understood, but about which there are already many Portuguese authors to write, which facilitates the access to information. Still, the book he was reading wasn't Portuguese, but an Indian edition of "Solid State Physics" with the seal of Cengage Learning. Miguel told me that the book, as an object, wasn't very good, mostly because the paper was of poor quality, which, at first, made the reading more difficult. But he had to get used to it once this was the cheaper edition he had found through Bookfinder.com, an online service that finds the best price among 150 million of new and used books available for sale on the Internet.
Translated by Marisa Silva
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