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Originally Posted by Marcy
This is not a failure. You have a big shelf of books that you have to store. They are gathering dust in your house. If you move you have to pack them up and then unpack them.
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Not exactly. Rex Stout's complete canon, in paperback, nicely fills one banker's box... so the books live there, pre-packed. The lid keeps out dust.
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Originally Posted by Marcy
I own all the Rex Stout books in pbooks that I also bought used many years ago. I'm still replacing them all with ebooks because I like the format much better. I haven't gotten rid of the pbooks yet because he is one of my top favorite authors and my books are all vintage copies. But one day I'll want to reclaim the space they're taking up and I'll have to do something with them.
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You could always send them to me. I'd happily upgrade any copies in my collection that needed it, and then pass a full set on to another friend who happens to be a voracious reader, surviving on a schoolteacher's salary. He can't afford an eBook device yet either, so the books would serve a good purpose.
Wherever the books go though, please don't just trash them.
The point is that even in this enlightened age, when we don't need to kill a tree to print a book, there is no logic in destroying whatever printed copies already exist, because that is potentially even more wasteful than their original production. Yes, you could recycle them to produce more paper... but even a battered old paperback may continue to be read, and enjoyed, by many successive readers, without requiring the addition of any further resources to the chain.
- M.