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Booked Solid: Some Readers' Cherished Collections Have Nowhere to Grow
The Washington Post ^
| March 23, 2006
| Annie Groer
Posted on 03/23/2006 11:53:14 AM PST by Physicist
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The love of books is the only hobby that is also classed as a mental illness.
Any other confirmed bibliopaths out there?
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:53:16 AM PST
by
Physicist
To: RadioAstronomer; RightWingAtheist; Xenalyte; Tax-chick; MississippiMalcontent; tarzantheapeman; ...
Bibliopath ping.
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:54:29 AM PST
by
Physicist
To: Physicist
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:54:34 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Physicist
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:55:09 AM PST
by
Borges
To: Physicist
Southwestern Jewish cuisine????? What the hell is that? Spicy Matzah Ball Soup?
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:55:50 AM PST
by
Hildy
To: Physicist
*sigh*
Guilty...
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:56:04 AM PST
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: Physicist
Picture from the article:
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:56:32 AM PST
by
Physicist
To: Physicist; RightWingAtheist
Me! I have around 6000 books now. Mostly engineering, astrophysics, nuclear physics, math, chemistry, geology, etc. :-)
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:56:46 AM PST
by
RadioAstronomer
(Senior member of Darwin Central)
To: Physicist
I find it very hard to part with any book I've read. My library fines are astronomical............
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:56:49 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Hildy
Guacamole on a bagel?......
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:58:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: Borges
Such a cute couple! Regional Jewish cookbooks, eh? That's an interesting topic for a collection. My mother-in-law probably has the world's largest collection of Lutheran church basement lady cookbooks. I've looked at some of them, but they all seem to have the same 120 recipes.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. They DO all have different covers, anyhow.
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:58:03 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Physicist
But when he moved to a one-bedroom Dupont Circle apartment with a partner who collects large art and architecture books Move from a house to a one-bedroom with a "partner"? What a fruitcake.
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posted on
03/23/2006 11:58:07 AM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(Happy New Year! Breed like dogs!)
To: Physicist
That's nothing. You should check out the record collectors.
To: Physicist
My husband and I are pretty bad, but my daughter is worse. And she collects in more than one language (she can read in 3). Has a framed poster that quotes someone famous that reads, "When I have a little money, I buy a book. When I have more, I buy food."
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:01:34 PM PST
by
trimom
To: Physicist
My wife and I have eight 30" five shelf units filled at home, with enough additional to fill a ninth shelf. My kids have another shelf of their own.
To: Physicist
I'm so fortunate that my home came with a library. It's full though.
I've had to add bookcases in several other rooms.
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:04:27 PM PST
by
Quilla
To: Physicist
I collect First editions and antique leather books. It is an expensive hobby yet I try to read all of them. I have to keep adding bookshelves. I love to read!!
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:05:01 PM PST
by
tbird5
To: Physicist
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:05:28 PM PST
by
redhead
(Alaska: Step out of the bus and into the food chain...)
To: Foxfire4
You might want to read this. Not that I'm implying anything, oh Hogger of the Bookshelves. *cough*
}:-)4
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:05:30 PM PST
by
Moose4
("I will shoulder my musket and brandish my sword/In defense of this land and the word of the Lord")
To: Physicist
Anymore you HAVE to keep your own library. Libraries have politicized their shelves and refuse to shelve some texts.
They also have been purging older texts (after all blind subscriptions to 50 copies of Oprah's book club choices take a lot of room).
Every year, I go to the annual library book sale and buy the books that are far to costly to try to obtain on the used book market.
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posted on
03/23/2006 12:06:17 PM PST
by
weegee
("Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.")
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