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Originally Posted by GeoffC
You are right, it's not the same, but some of us are happy to not clutter up bookshelves with fiction and, instead, leave them for the quality factual hardbacks ....
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Originally Posted by sabredog
We have no more room in our house for fiction books, paperback or otherwise. I still buy reference books for my hobby and still purchase paperbacks for our youngest daughter (18), but no more for my wife and I.
Our ebook library on the other hand is growing rapidly. My goal is to have an ebook copy of every fiction and reference book in our house.
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Originally Posted by RainingLemur
That was an interesting read. I do tend to agree with the "collecting" books, somewhat. As much as I like looking for ebooks before physical books, there are still some that I'll get in a hard-copy regardless.
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Originally Posted by MV64
I agree with his sentiments, but I hate hardcovers. Clunky and uncomfortable things.
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I have had as many thoughts on keeping books, as there were changes in my life. Growing up there were few books in my house, but a library was close and I used it well. I never owned hardbound books until I went to college, and then I seldom sold a textbook. I would go to book fairs and buy cheap books, hard and paper bound which I started storing with my textbooks. Still if I bought new fiction book, it would be a paperback. I would wait until it appeared in paperback.
Now I am getting rid of books if I can get it in digital form, and if I can find an excuse to do so. Even many of my precious college textbooks are gone, and I am working on the rest. My goal is to constantly reduce the bookcases in the house and also reduce the filing cabinets.
I have been working on it for years.
When I go to work on the books, bookcases and filing cabinets, I put on a dust mask. I want to get rid of the dust, the mold and the tremendous weight I have moved from place to place over many years.
One day, one day, ..., maybe no more physical books. I may die before that day, but still that is my goal.
When St Peter greets me at the gate (hopefully) he may say
"Well, since you couldn't bring anything with you I assume you made arrangements as to how your property would be distributed upon your elevation? Your money. Your boats, your vehicles. Your personal effects collected over the years, your books, ..."
"No Sir," I will say, "no books.
NO BOOKS!"
"Sir, when may I hook up to Heaven's "cloud" and transfer over 5 Terabytes of data from my cloud down there?"
A fond hope.