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Old 04-20-2009, 11:57 PM   #142
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Originally Posted by 6charlong View Post
I have to disagree with your premise. You see, this makes the fifth time I've bought LOTR in the past 40 some years. Someone borrowed the first set and didn't return it. The second set got wet and torn. The Fellowship volume from the third set "disappeared." The fourth set is probably somewhere but I still want it on my reader enough to buy a fifth set.

Even pbooks are transitory. Permanence is only an illusion.
I still have my set from 1986. At least with printed books, if they're lost the fault is mine alone.

Greg.
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