Cost of eBooks vs dead-tree books

[Apache]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Does anyone else end up double or triple-stacking their shelves with books to make the most of limited shelf space?

Apache

[Gardenman]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Of she can do what wives do best. "You cannot buy any more bookcases. You'll just have to get rid of some of those books to make room for new ones."

Or throw them out out herself.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Gardenman

Or throw them out out herself.

That would end in divorce. The wife makes the husband choose which books to get rid of.

[Apache]

My wife has threatened to load all of my books into my coffin. I told her they don't make a coffin that large.
Apache

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Apache

My wife has threatened to load all of my books into my coffin. I told her they don't make a coffin that large.
Apache

Perhaps just tear off the covers and toss them in? The rest goes to the recycle bin.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

So you've never bought a book to find out because of the different size it doesn't fit on the shelf and you've then got a rather lot of work ahead f you to get it to fit as you have to shift many books and adjust other shelf heights?

Almost.

The vast majority of books I bought were second hand mmpbs which were roughly the same size. Very occasionally I would buy a trade paperback of a title I wanted as I had not yet found a mmpb copy. When I found a second hand mmpb of that title I would buy it and trade in the trade paperback at my usual paperback exchange for a different mmpb.

Until recently paperback exchange shops/stalls were common in the UK. They sold second hand paperbacks and once the buyer had read them they could trade them in at the exchange them against some other paperbacks. They would usually credit you with half what you paid for the books if you had nor damaged them.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Of she can do what wives do best. "You cannot buy any more bookcases. You'll just have to get rid of some of those books to make room for new ones."

"Certainly dear. Just as soon as you throw out some of the over 100 pot plants you have in the house."

It usually then goes very quiet for a while, which is ideal for reading.

My wife and I get on very, very well, I am glad to say.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Thasaidon

"Certainly dear. Just as soon as you throw out some of the over 100 pot plants you have in the house."

It usually then goes very quiet for a while, which is ideal for reading.

My wife and I get on very, very well, I am glad to say.

My wife and I get along well. We don't have a problem with pBooks as we rarely buy them.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Thasaidon

"Certainly dear. Just as soon as you throw out some of the over 100 pot plants you have in the house."

It usually then goes very quiet for a while, which is ideal for reading.

My wife and I get on very, very well, I am glad to say.

Umm why is it always the wives who want to throw books out? Why never husbands?

For the record, I don't have a single pot plant in my home. I'd just forget to care for them. I do have lots of books, though. Lots and lots of books. And no husband to throw a tantrum about them.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Umm why is it always the wives who want to throw books out? Why never husbands?

For the record, I don't have a single pot plant in my home. I'd just forget to care for them. I do have lots of books, though. Lots and lots of books. And no husband to throw a tantrum about them.

Because wives want the home to be neat and tidy and the husbands are too lazy to bother trying to decide wat to get rid of. If husbands had their way, they've be living is a cluttered mess and end up on TV as a hoarder.

[rhadin]

Originally Posted by Apache

My wife has threatened to load all of my books into my coffin. I told her they don't make a coffin that large.
Apache

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Apache

My wife has threatened to load all of my books into my coffin. I told her they don't make a coffin that large.
Apache

They do once the wood chipper gets a hold of them.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Because wives want the home to be neat and tidy and the husbands are too lazy to bother trying to decide wat to get rid of. If husbands had their way, they've be living is a cluttered mess and end up on TV as a hoarder.

I'm no husband (tbh no wife either), but cluttered mess and hoarder seem somehow very familiar...

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I'm no husband (tbh no wife either), but cluttered mess and hoarder seem somehow very familiar...

We're neither of us terrible hoarders, but each time we move, I'm one telling my wife "dump it, we don't need it" - including scores and scores of dead-tree books for which we have digital copies.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

My wife and I get along well. We don't have a problem with pBooks as we rarely buy them.

Some years before I retired and decided to move to the Philippines, I had already moved on to eBooks so had stopped buying pBooks. At the peak I had close to four thousand pBooks.

My Filipino sister-in-law is a reader so I took the bulk of my pBooks back to the paperback exchange and swapped them for books she would like (Romances) and used them as packing in boxes of stuff I was shipping to the Philippines. They all arrived in good condition and my sister-in-law was very happy about this because pBooks are very expensive in the Philippines - even second hand.

Since we have moved to the Philippines I now only have one book cabinet which contains pbooks of sentimental value, like my Ace Double collection, old college text books and some other special books.

My wife now only keeps a few pot plants in the house (her choice) because her collection of plates and ornaments take up a lot of room.