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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.nas.onetel.net.uk)
Date: July 29, 2003 08:40PM

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 :)


Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: kaz (144.139.77.---)
Date: July 30, 2003 12:40AM

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.)


Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Skiffle (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 30, 2003 01:50AM

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.

Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: July 30, 2003 10:44AM

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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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Nicky (---.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net)
Date: July 30, 2003 12:36PM

Kaz, do you have any Tintin?


Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: kaz (144.139.77.---)
Date: July 30, 2003 12:49PM

Used to read Tintin but don't possess any of the books. My eldest would probably like them. Might introduce him to them ....


Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: KT (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 30, 2003 02:09PM

Is there anyone out there who doesn't have "Schott's Original Miscellany" or "Brewer's dictionary of Phrase and fable"?



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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: jon (---.abel.net.uk)
Date: July 30, 2003 02:17PM

Me. H'ain't got h'either.



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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Big John (---.rit.reuters.com)
Date: July 30, 2003 03:02PM

Nor I, although my housemate has Schott's. ("I'd see a doctor about that," etc etc.)



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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Carla (198.179.227.---)
Date: July 30, 2003 03:04PM

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...

Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
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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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Simon (---.westsussex.gov.uk)
Date: July 30, 2003 03:44PM

Keep meaning to buy a copy of Schott's, keep running out of money before I get around to doing so...

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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: dante (---.thls.bbc.co.uk)
Date: July 30, 2003 05:20PM

I've got both. And the Modern Dictionary of P&F. Oh, and the far inferior Wordsworth version. (Is it wordsworth? something like that...)



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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Sarah (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 30, 2003 06:08PM

I have Brewer's but not Schott's. Wilfred says he'll take either - beer or whiskey, he's not fussy!



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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 30, 2003 06:11PM

I've got neither, I'm more likely to get Brewer's than Schott's.



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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: dante (---.thls.bbc.co.uk)
Date: July 30, 2003 06:38PM

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.



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Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 30, 2003 06:42PM

PSD - hung like a barnacle, and likely to get Brewer's.

Sarah said if I didn't Kaz would beat me to it. Ow! Ow!


Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: kaz (144.139.77.---)
Date: July 31, 2003 12:08AM

Well done, Dave R. Nice to to see there are those who carry on my hobby when I am not around.


Re: Books Do Furnish A Room
Posted by: poetscientistdrinker (---.cache.pol.co.uk)
Date: July 31, 2003 12:11AM

Traitors!



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