Bibliopath ping.
Posted on 03/23/2006 11:53:14 AM PST by Physicist
Law librarian Rick Ramponi's collection of 3,000 regional cookbooks --including "Talk About Good" from the Lafayette, La., Junior League and "Shalom on the Range," which celebrates southwestern Jewish cuisine -- was manageable while he lived in a large house in Kalorama.
But when he moved to a one-bedroom Dupont Circle apartment with a partner who collects large art and architecture books, Ramponi had to exile those cherished culinary texts to a pair of rented storage units several blocks away.
Since 2002, he has spent more than $5,000 to keep them there, which "may be more than they are all worth," he concedes. "But there is a sentimental attachment and I associate them with places I've been, people I know."
Accountant Jennifer Kimball, who is studying for a master's degree in English, and policy analyst Matt Cail, who has a pair of master's degrees, call themselves "huge bibliophiles." Thus their chief requirement when condo shopping two years ago was enough wall space for shelves to hold their books. Already they have run out of space in their Alexandria flat. "Next year we will start looking for a house to buy that has room for children," she says. And books.
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Any other confirmed bibliopaths out there?
Bibliopath ping.
Put me on there!
Southwestern Jewish cuisine????? What the hell is that? Spicy Matzah Ball Soup?
Me! I have around 6000 books now. Mostly engineering, astrophysics, nuclear physics, math, chemistry, geology, etc. :-)
I find it very hard to part with any book I've read. My library fines are astronomical............
Guacamole on a bagel?......
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.
Move from a house to a one-bedroom with a "partner"? What a fruitcake.
That's nothing. You should check out the record collectors.
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."
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.
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.
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!!
Me! ME!! Oh, pick ME!!
You might want to read this. Not that I'm implying anything, oh Hogger of the Bookshelves. *cough*
}:-)4
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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