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Phebe · 12-21-2006, 02:54 PM

I oftentimes read a book and immediately toss it into the trash thereafter.

How does that strike you? Foolish? Okay?

Okay................it's your books.

We have TOO MUCH STUFF in this country: all the cheap oriental manufacturies.

Okay, it's still hard for me to toss books (unless they are bad, and then out they go). So I give them to my husband to take to a "trading shelf" they maintain at his work. And I have boxes of paperbacks on the porch ------ will your example inspire me to chuck them? Maybe.

Anyway, it's partly hard because we're all brainwashed by those old black-and-white photos of Germans tossing Jewish books on the bonfire. Aaaaaaacccccckkk!!!

So I'm moving laterally ------ I'm getting dozens and hundreds more books, but they are just pixels; they are non-material.

That'll work!!

12-21-2006, 02:54 PM	#38
Phebe Connoisseur Posts: 85 Karma: 124 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: Sony PRS 500 and Kindle 2 and iPad and iPhone	I oftentimes read a book and immediately toss it into the trash thereafter. How does that strike you? Foolish? Okay? Okay................it's your books. We have TOO MUCH STUFF in this country: all the cheap oriental manufacturies. Okay, it's still hard for me to toss books (unless they are bad, and then out they go). So I give them to my husband to take to a "trading shelf" they maintain at his work. And I have boxes of paperbacks on the porch ------ will your example inspire me to chuck them? Maybe. Anyway, it's partly hard because we're all brainwashed by those old black-and-white photos of Germans tossing Jewish books on the bonfire. Aaaaaaacccccckkk!!! So I'm moving laterally ------ I'm getting dozens and hundreds more books, but they are just pixels; they are non-material. That'll work!!