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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
Life is indeed too damned short. You can plop your hardcovers next to my DVD collection, which won't see the light of day, either. When I keel over, they'll get sold for cents on the dollar at a yard sale.
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Oh, hell, I'm not a hardcover bigot, either. I really do have paperbacks that are falling apart (Christie, usually), original signed copies of Dune, along with more recent Firsts that are signed along with third-hand copies of Dick Francis' books from his third-to-last publisher and then some. I have books nobody's ever heard of, even old Dr. Who paperbacks from probably the 4th Doctor (yes: the first time around, admittedly, they were sent to me when I was writing book reviews, but, hey....). I have Clutterbuck's
Kidnap and Ransom next to Francis' book on K&R guys, due to the Hitch filing system (LOL). I have Du Maurier next to Sookie Stackhouse and Spider Robinson while
The Soong Dynasty is co-habitating with Harry Dresden, for some reason.
It's a lifetime of voraciousness with 17 bankers' boxes of books sitting there, still waiting to find a home on shelves that take up an obscenely large amount of wallspace in the house. Still...I wouldn't trade most of them. I tried, I really did, doing the "used book" thing a million years ago and I found that I had trouble parting with them. {shrug}. I don't really collect anything else, and I'm not generally acquisitive. Except when it comes to books. I have, however, given up print altogether; I only have print come in to the house now when it's a gift and I can't dodge it (due to the aforementioned space issues). I love them, but I clearly need an
Editions Anonymous 12-Step Program. eBooks only for me, now, and has been the case for the last 3-4 years.
Hitch