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maddz · 03-26-2018, 02:48 AM

I can’t remember not being able to read - I’ve always had books and my mother wouldn’t take me to the library more than once a week unless it was school holidays. Of course, once I was old enough to cycle on my own I could go more often - just as well, as I could read more than one book a day given a chance.

I’m slowly getting rid of print books as they’re converted to electronic format and turn up on sale somewhere. My problem was that I read SF&F and had a lot of imports which weren’t available in the UK, so I kept books. According to my catalogue, I still have over 4600 hard copies, and along with over 2700 ebooks I have a small library in my house plus my partners books. I’m still cataloguing - I’m currently working my way through RPG pdfs.

03-26-2018, 02:48 AM	#9
maddz Wizard Posts: 1,410 Karma: 30039536 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: UK Device: Kobo Forma, Icarus, iPad Mini 2, Kobo Touch, Google Nexus 7	I can’t remember not being able to read - I’ve always had books and my mother wouldn’t take me to the library more than once a week unless it was school holidays. Of course, once I was old enough to cycle on my own I could go more often - just as well, as I could read more than one book a day given a chance. I’m slowly getting rid of print books as they’re converted to electronic format and turn up on sale somewhere. My problem was that I read SF&F and had a lot of imports which weren’t available in the UK, so I kept books. According to my catalogue, I still have over 4600 hard copies, and along with over 2700 ebooks I have a small library in my house plus my partners books. I’m still cataloguing - I’m currently working my way through RPG pdfs.