So: do you collect books?
Yes.
do you purchase books specifically for collecting?
No, I purchase them to read, to keep and then to be able to reference if I ever need or want to.
do you sell books when you are done with them?
No. Occasionally, if I replace a cheap paperback with a nicer version I will give the cheap version away to a friend, but only if that friend is the sort who would enjoy the book and not ruin it. I did throw out a huge box of cheap Russian-language detective novels that I despised because my ex-wife bought and read them and I was divorced and she didn't want them.
do you borrow a lot of books in the library?
No. No one knows where those books have been or what the hands that touched them touched before touching the book. Think about George Costanza taking that book into the bathroom.
do you buy used books?
I avoid it but have been convinced to buy them in a very few cases where the book is unavailable new and the used version is "like new" or extremely old (in the latter case it's sort of just an antique).
why/why not?
Answers provided above.
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Addendum to previous survey: do you hoard books or pass them on/sell them when you are done?
- 26/06/2011 09:21:48 PM
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I collect them.
- 26/06/2011 10:24:52 PM
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I don't hoard books, they just have a tendency to end up in my presence.
- 26/06/2011 10:56:13 PM
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As of now, I still have room on my bookshelf so I don't need to get rid of anything.
- 27/06/2011 02:42:21 AM
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Re: Addendum to previous survey: do you hoard books or pass them on/sell them when you are done?
- 29/06/2011 11:53:42 AM
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Re: Addendum to previous survey: do you hoard books or pass them on/sell them when you are done?
- 29/06/2011 02:15:55 PM
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Re: Addendum to previous survey: do you hoard books or pass them on/sell them when you are done?
- 30/06/2011 11:37:46 AM
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Re: Addendum to previous survey: do you hoard books or pass them on/sell them when you are done?
- 30/06/2011 11:39:46 AM
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I wouldn't say I collect books for collection's sake, but I don't get rid of them either
- 29/06/2011 12:15:45 PM
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