Mobilereader Madam Broshkina sent us in this deeply sobering story of a man whose passion for collecting books has cost him his home. The Times Leader
reports:
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John Puchniak quite literally lives in a sea of books.
He reads constantly except when he's haunting bookstores, libraries and, when he's able to get there, the Philadelphia bookstore that he co-owns. He filled his house with about 3,000 texts until it was repossessed by the bank, which agreed to move them all to an apartment Puchniak rented on North Main Street specifically because there was plenty of storage space.
For about a month and a half, though, Puchniak has had to shuttle his papery world to the Red Carpet Inn on Kidder Street because his apartment was condemned after city code enforcement officers said the books were a fire hazard.
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Of course, had Mr. Puchniak collected his texts on an e-book reader (along with a bunch of memory cards), this would never have happened... Another lesson learned, folks: e-reader devices make homes safer!
[via
EarthTimes]