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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2017 2:59:10 GMT
This is the second time that I was rummaging through the top shelf of my closet and was almost knocked over by a falling avalanche of yet to be read books. And now the Book Horde is starting to take over my dresser  Am I the only one with this problem or do you just buy books as you go reading or Kindling along? |
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 20, 2017 19:34:41 GMT
I have a pretty sizable collection but I'm sure is dwarfed by plenty. However, I have a substantial collection of the old black spined Penguin Classics (from the late 1960's and 1970's) and a big collection of the Ballantine Illustrated History of World War II (or Violent Century). I have plenty of others too though, mostly unread. I have a Kindle also, but it's been put in my nightstand where it rarely sees the light of day anymore. I like paper too much.
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Post by paislene on Mar 20, 2017 21:21:44 GMT
I love to hoard books , and a lot of other things as well - collector's editions of movies , and clothes , anything really !
And I tend to buy everything in bulk too ! But when a lot of the bookstores near me closed in the 90's & 00's , I began
travelling to further bookstores , but they then closed , so then it was to online purchases . But the joy of it faded .
And now it's maybe 5 books a year , and an occasional digital (Kobo) book that may be recommended .
If the digital age had not come about , I would probably have had to move into an industrial block to store the collection !
   
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 2:17:24 GMT
I have all the later Star Trek series novels lurking in the back there somewhere, keep telling myself that I will actually read them all sometime. Then there are all of the Rumpole of the Baily books that I bought in a large box a few years ago that fell on me from the right side of the closet   ,,,,now those I am going to read for sure, the list is pretty long, especially with some of the large fantasy series, like the misc 'Forgotten Realms' truly forgotten for sometime now. And let's not even go into the History books. |
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 21, 2017 13:03:58 GMT
I have been collecting books since I was 11 years old, I started off with one shelf on my whole bookcase, and I was very proud of that, a lot of them were Mary Roberts Rinehart mysteries, but I kept getting more, and more, then I started going to library book sales, then I started going to a thrift store where they're 10 for a dollar...a few years ago I counted 3,000 books, most of which I haven't read, I wouldn't even be able to count them now, probably 6,000 or so. Most of which I still have not read, but this year I'm finally getting around to some of them to determine what to keep and what to get rid of. For a while I was reading 1 book a day but that was a while ago.
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Post by shield on Mar 21, 2017 20:43:14 GMT
When I read on paper I usually kept it to books that I would read. Maybe up to twenty or so unread and the rest read. When they stood in rows upon rows in the bookshelves I started peeking at my Ipad and reading e-books. Now it's hundreds of unread books but they don't take up space anymore. I won't go back to paper.
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Post by Bargle on Mar 21, 2017 21:38:43 GMT
I don't keep everything, but I do keep a lot. Especially my nonfiction stuff and anything I expect to reread.
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Post by karryon99v2 on Mar 21, 2017 22:05:29 GMT
I have a huge collection of books where I live .I order from the Internet books, since the closest bookstore doesn't have much of a selection and the next bookstore is 15 to 20 minutes by car.. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 22:14:26 GMT
I used to but I got rid of them all when I got a kindle (apart from my Harry Potter box set, I can't bear to get rid of it because the box is so nice).
I'm now a digital hoarder and have loads that I haven't read yet, but it's so much better than clutter. If I didn't have a kindle I'd need a much bigger apartment, or I'd be on one of those shows where people live in a crap-hole and can't find the cat.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 23, 2017 3:49:51 GMT
...I own several thousand books. My oldest editions are a 3 volume set of 1001 Arabian Nights Entertainments copyright 1841...most of my books are hardcover editions...
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Post by pennypacker on Mar 23, 2017 5:32:59 GMT
I'm a bit of a hoarder in general, but yes.
I've been hoarding books since I was like 7 years old. Got lots of books geared towards children. Kinda fun to read as an adult.
A few friends and I do a book swap every once in a while, that's the only way I get rid of books.
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Post by darknessfish on Mar 24, 2017 20:28:54 GMT
I don't really collect books, I don't have much room because of all the records and CDs, but between myself and the wife, there's probably 200 or so books filling shelves around the house. I keep the ones that I absolutely love, but I do tend to trade most of 'em at my local book-swap place.
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Post by DarkManX on Mar 25, 2017 4:10:08 GMT
Yeah I have a pretty good collection though it isn't a library by any stretch of the imagination. There's only a few I haven't got around to reading yet.
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Post by persephone on Mar 25, 2017 8:06:13 GMT
Yeah, lately though I have been getting more and more books on Kindle. My house does not have a lot of room for storage and I read so many books it was becoming a problem.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 28, 2017 14:32:04 GMT
Yes, I do.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 28, 2017 23:41:23 GMT
There was a gap in college where I didn't read for fun so I've been catching up ever since.
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Post by agentblue on Mar 30, 2017 21:55:39 GMT
I have probably 30 books stored in my closet and I have read like 25 of them so there is literally 5 unread books in there that I havent even touched since I bought them (or one was a gift actually). Once I clear my plate tho then I will read them.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 31, 2017 9:04:32 GMT
This is the second time that I was rummaging through the top shelf of my closet and was almost knocked over by a falling avalanche of yet to be read books. And now the Book Horde is starting to take over my dresser Am I the only one with this problem or do you just buy books as you go reading or Kindling along? yes, all the time. even i hardly have any space left in the cupboards in my room. i had started a similar thread on the old IMDB books board called book materialism. |
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Post by FilmFlaneur on Apr 12, 2017 15:24:41 GMT
Yes, I have thousands of books, with the emphasis on non-fiction. Things are crowded in the 'man cave' but reasonably in order so I can find stuff. I normally have several on the go at once, either for different places in the house or simply because I pick something up and start it out of interest before being distracted. I know I will never get to read them all, and have forgotten how many of the fiction works plot out. But I am still buying more, and wouldn't be without them.
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Post by koskiewicz on Apr 12, 2017 15:43:00 GMT
...no, I read books...
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,,,,now those I am going to read for sure, the list is pretty long, especially with some of the large fantasy series, like the misc 'Forgotten Realms' truly forgotten for sometime now. And let's not even go into the History books.
