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Originally Posted by jbcohen
I guess you don't have a problem with book shelf space like I do, covingtoncat. Have approxiamtly 2,000 dead wood books hanging about in the basement all over several book shelves. I had to go electronic out of necessity due to the space that the dead wood ones have been taking up.
You are right Richley, the big box book stores took over the music and movie market many years ago. Due the the technological shift away from big box stores as initated by Amazon and itunes I would imagine that all of the music will be downloaded in the near future rather then being bought at neighborhood stores.
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Heh, well. I used to have that problem. Not to the extent of 2000, though. I've actually gotten rid of a lot of dead wood books over the last 7 years due to moves. Stuff I really, really like, I'm still going to want in dead wood format, if only so I can share them with friends/family. One way I got rid of some of my dead wood, other than Goodwill and the library, were by giving some to my cousin's family. I'm book buddies with her husband and the oldest girl is a big reader. They lost all their books in the Big K. Another is the used bookstore. I have swapped out paperbacks there. You get about 1/2 as many as you trade in, so it is a net loss of books.
The only stuff I'm currently collecting in dead wood is anything by Gaiman, Jasper Fforde, the Bill Willingham Fables graphic novels, Joe Hill's Locke & Key graphic novels, Justin Cronin's
The Passage and any sequels, Deborah Harkness'
Discovery of Witches and any sequels, and Kevin Hearne's
Hounded and its sequels. Oh, I should add Lev Grossman's
Magician King will be a dead wood purchase because I have
The Magicians in that format and, if I feel a nonfiction I read is really important, I might get it in dead wood.