[T. P. Pole]

We used to buy tons of books for the kids. Recently I am finding that the internet serves just as well. For example, my wife was looking at a "holidays around the world" type of book. I just couldn't restrict myself to the limitations of a single book.

So the only books I am buying these days tend to be things you cannot find on the internet. Biographies, specific science texts, etc. If it is reference, though, I struggle to purchase.

[reaganaut]

We have a private library over over 12,000 books, which we are opening up to the public next summer.

I used to work in used bookstores just for book credit (the good antiquarian ones).

I like the internet resources for quick references but there are too many good books out there (especially in my field) to be limited to them.

And I still love nothing more than the feel and smell of a book.

My prize book is a 1711 Vet manual given by Lord Heathrow to a friend and inscribed by him. That one is staying in ‘special collections’.