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I don't hoard books, they just have a tendency to end up in my presence. Stephen Send a noteboard - 26/06/2011 10:56:13 PM
I hoard books. I hardly ever give any of my own books away, and I never ever sell them. Even the bad ones. I am wondering whether the aversion to writing in books is tied up in some sort of transitory ownership-idea. I would have thought it would be the other way around, that those of us who cannot bear to part with the book as an object would be more protective of it, but now I am starting to wonder.

So: do you collect books?

Not really. When I was eight or nine I'd buy every single hardcover coffee table type book on dinosaurs or prehistoric animals I could find. Since then, I just tend to buy books in whichever series I currently enjoy. The fact that I've a tendency to keep every single book I buy would suggest I do collect.
do you purchase books specifically for collecting?

I've bought one or two Terry Pratchett books after reading library copies purely to have a copy on my shelf.
do you sell books when you are done with them?

No. Nor do i often give away books. When I recently heard that my copy of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was somewhere in the Melbourne region of Australia, I was kind of distraught.
do you borrow a lot of books in the library?

Yes. Around a third of what I read comes from libraries. I tend only to withdraw books that have only been borrowed once or twice, though.
do you buy used books?

I tend not to. One of my favourite book shops is a used book shop, though, but mainly because the also sell overflow stock cheaply.
why/why not?

I prefer crisp books.
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