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Hey everyone! sorry i introduced myself then vanished again, I have been busy.
My books are spread throughout my flat, and in no order whatsover. I do, however, have the excuse of a toddler in my home. She loves to read and therefore carries them all over the place :)
I have somewhere in the vacinity of 700 books. Now where near enough for a self-respecting bibliophile. Gonna have to do something about that. (Quite a few of those books are Garfield, Snoopy, Marmaduke, Footrot Flats and Asterix. Gotta have the Asterix books.)
False alarm; it wasn't a bookcase that had been dumped, it was an upended bedbase. I did consider taking the nasty fabric off and nailing some shelves across, but decided I had too much to do already.
I'm still reshelving my book collection (got distracted by 3rd series Farscape on DVD). I've got almost 200 paperback pony books in one case, and 130 hardback pony books to go back in another. And a friend has found the address of a bookshop in Ilkeston that sells pony books, so that's two specialist sources I've got now !
I can't be bothered to list all the sorts of books I have; there's too many. I do go through them now and again, and cull those I haven't read in ages and probably never will again. I give them to charity shops, along with clothes that I don't wear any more and other stuff.
My mother is a bit like Dave R ... in respect of reading, anyway. she can never re-read a book, even if she read it fifty years ago. Me, I can re-read a thousand times, if it's a good book, and always enjoy it. I think this is because I am a bit of a speed-reader, and so miss things, and also because I have a rotten memory.
I do throw things out sometimes; I had a cull when we moved, and a couple more got shot during the recent reshelving.
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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty
I don't have any of those, maybe the problems we had with stock levels last Xmas made me not want to buy Schotts... and noone gives me books anymore...
Posted by: Andrea (---.range81-152.btcentralplus.com)
Date: July 30, 2003 03:15PM
Jon said 'Pratchett and Tolkien take up more than one shelf each'.
I have no Tolkein but my Pratchetts take up a full book case (and it's taller than me)
Jasper's take over half a shelf already...
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Sylvester says.... *plock*
actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up
I've only got Schotts because someone I know had 2 copies and gave me one of them. Brewer's is great, but every time I go to look something up in it I get distracted for *at least* half an hour. It's got the Great Panjandrum in, too.