Re: Addendum to previous survey: do you hoard books or pass them on/sell them when you are done?
snoopcester Send a noteboard - 29/06/2011 11:53:42 AM
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?
My library suggests I do.
do you purchase books specifically for collecting?
I'm not sure what you mean here?
I will buy an edition of a book that is nicer because I'm planning to keep it but I generally wouldn't buy a book purely to collect it, it would be a book I wanted to read.
do you sell books when you are done with them?
Last time I moved I had a sort out of books I wasn't bothered about keeping and got rid of them. I gave them to a charity shop rather than sell them though.
do you borrow a lot of books in the library?
No, I ought to though.
do you buy used books?
Yes
why/why not?
Why not indeed.
*MySmiley*
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
Robert Graves "There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either."
Henning Mankell "We must defend the open society, because if we start locking our doors, if we let fear decide, the person who committed the act of terror will win"
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 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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