Posted on 03/23/2006 11:53:14 AM PST by Physicist
Hmmm... ping... give it a few more years and we'll have this problem I think...
My wife refuses to go "garage saleing" with me anymore because I always buy several books.
On those rarer than rare occasions that we actually do go to a garage sale, she adminishes "No books! Gottit?" before we get out of the car.
It never works.
I had to force the wife to at least dump the paperbacks. It was difficult, but when the truck is half taken up with heavy boxes of books, you gotta put your foot down.
When my wife and I married nine years ago this summer and moved to our new home, it took over two one-ton flat bed truck loads to move our books to the new house from our two previous houses. Since then, I've gotten rid of some old paperbacks from thirty years ago, but we have gotten around to some serious purchasing. I have no fear of tornados -- our home can't be lifted from its foundations.
I was immediately and subconsciously suspicious...
...with a partner
My suspicions were confirmed three words later.
Penguin paperbacks suck. I'll find a copy of the book I'm looking for online in a used bookstore in the UK before I purchase a new one here.
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I used to be. However, years ago I was running out of shelf space and starting thinking that it was a shame these good books were sitting on a shelf and not being read. (I had already read all of them). So, I decided to donate them to my local library. I delivered about 2000 books and they were thrilled to get them. Now I know lots of people are getting the enjoyment out of the books that I got and I can still go check out any of them whenever I want. A win/win situation. Now I deliver a couple of boxes to the library ever two years or so, whenever shelf space starts getting tight.
Those Penguin editions collapse after one or two readings.
Bookcases in every room with books appropriate to the room (like 200 plus cookbooks in the kitchen, art books in the living room, garden books in the sun room, how too books in the bathroom etc).
File boxes of books under beds clearly labeled.
MORE file boxes of books in the attic (cheap paperbacks, but I browse through them all the time for fun reads).
Oh yeah, and walls of books in my office.
And the horror is books are really cheap at Goodwill. And I really do need one more cookbook...
I bet that was one of those "you gotta be kidding me" moments.
I am in an apartment and do not have the space for all of the shelves I would need for my books. I need to box up those I am not referencing regularly.
Good thing is I can always rotate what are on the shelves and rediscover some books I've bought but haven't had time to read. Or want to reread.
My wife considers any garage sale Saturday a waste if we don't find a few books. We just gave away several hundred and it didn't make a dent.
That's what The Lock Up is for.
Well put. I have books stacked two deep on shelves in my house. Very relaxing to pick up an old paperback on a rainy day.
Easier to find time to read now that the kids are getting older. When they were little, my book collection sat unread for quite awhile. Just no time then.
I love Dunning's books! I would love to have his first book in a 1st. I have the other's signed and in 1st. Don't tell me you have his 1st book because I would be really jealous. Dunning has a web page and a book store online.
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