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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Is anyone thinking about doing that for the English language? That's be a software program WORTH buying.
Can only be done for books without copyright...
http://www.gutenberg.org/
47.1 GB (50,657,410,243 bytes)
Good Lord, I have thousands of ebooks at home and they only take up a couple of GB.
What the heck is in THAT collection ? >:)
I took mine to jury duty with me. Kept me entertained while I was waiting to be dismissed. :-)
Most welcome, I hope you enjoy them. :-)
ROFLOL! Yeah, THOSE books.
Tell me about it, and I am an eclectic reader too, my Johnstone books share a bookcase with my Linda Howard books, and my Hamilton books share with Weber.
(sigh)... Is it the weekend yet? I need to go to the bookstore. hehe
I have discovered an author- T.S. Stribling. Just started the third of his trilogy - "Unfinished Cathedral"
A relative of mine was taking this too far. Besides many books she had inherited, she would buy rare books in stores and at auctions. She had multiple storage locations here and in England. Sometimes other relatives would have to get involved in shipping these books for her. Since she has been doing better she doesn't buy as many books. But there are still many in storage.
She actually does know a great deal about books and has a lot of interesting stuff. Now she's taking it too far in the other direction and talking about getting rid of most of them. She has been talking to book dealers. Since she doesn't always think too clearly, I am worried that she will be "taken".
:) Wonderful, and thank you.
Please add me to your bibliomaniac list.
Thank you.
I can't "read" more than a few books a year anymore, but have an audiobooks account and listen to 25 to 30 a year. Always open to some good mystery, detective and spy novel authors.
I win! I am surrounded by books. LOL.
...he has spent more than $5,000 to keep them there, which "may be more than they are all worth," ...
That means he is valuing them at, roughly $1.65 per book.
How on earth would he get them that cheap, evan at second-hand shops?
Full Disclosure: I'm jealous!
Cheers!
My memory is a daguerrotype, it often leaves unsightly cracks running across my quotes :-)
Cheers!
In fact, literary classics kick the #*#$@!! out of most anything written recently. :-)
Shhhh! You'll give away my secret!
Cheers!
I'm building a library in our home. Pretty sad when you get excited about measuring for built-ins.
Hate to say this to you, Physicist, but you are definitely veering close to Norbert Wiener territory there. :-)
Cheers!
Gotta admit I've never stuffed a snow pea, but it sounds like a good idea.
And as much as "Martha" urged *me* to de-bone something, anything, I resisted! As long as more and more commercial places and local butchers are making turduckens, I can't foresee "needing to know" de-boning techniques for my own use in any other venue, lol.
My young butcher did tell me it was the very first "pop quiz" they had in butcher school.
Latin is a dead language
It's easy to see why
It killed off all the Romans
and now it's killing me!
Cheers!
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