Confessions of a book hoarder

[BoskoBadovnic]

I buy most of my books second-hand. Browsing in second-hand bookstores is one of the greatest pleasures in my life, though I have to curtail it now that space for books has grown short.

 

[GKMotley]

I do a lot of used stuff. Was in that business for a few years.

If space was a controlling factor, I would have quit, mostly, years ago.

 

[GKMotley]

Love the aroma of old books.

 

[BoskoBadovnic]

I’ve never held a Kindle, but I bet it doesn’t smell half as good as a shelf of old Penguins.

 

[GKMotley]

And there’s the tactile sense of the old dust on the top edge of a really good find in an old used book mart. Thrill of the hunt.

 

[GKMotley]

I got a Perez sketch.

 

[BoskoBadovnic]

Not only do you find an item that you’d been seeking for the longest time, but you also come across something that you’d never even heard of before but simply have to make your own. Thrill of the hunt!

 

[GKMotley]

My wife loves my cry of “I need to know more about this”. More books coming.

 

[dochawk]

I will call him without the asterisk.

too many little round things made it hard to count them. Yeah, I’ll go with that.

I tried to invite him, but that option seems to have disappeared . . .

I’ve largely stopped buying books, am actively getting rid of them, and rely more and more on ebooks at the library.

For someone like me, an electronic reader is an abomination.

It was for me, but tit kept chipping at me. And my wife doesn’t complain about the light being on in bet wehn I used an iPad.

And odd as it may seem, the “pagelike”: turning on the iPad, in which you can also see the faint image of the characters on the “other side” of the page, helped a lot.

the booka app is a noticeably more bookish expierience than kindle, which is an even bigger gap ahead of the wretched library apps . .

For 40 years, I had planned an addition to my house, around 1200 sq. ft. for a library/man cave.

Gosh, I’d see a 1200 sq feet addition as “much of the way to the garage I want” . . . I currently have 5 that need to be in my two car garage, and there are a couple more I want and would use, and space for a “next” car when I find it early, and a couple of lifts, and . . . a 15 gar garage would be perfect, but I could live with 12 (but might have to juggle on and off the lifts . . )

Takes dedication, skill, a cooperative enabler spouse, and a basic lack of common sense and proportion.

Yeah, my wife encourages rather than slows my Cadillac problem . . . gosh, I need to get enough more critical projects out of the way to work on my '72 converitble . . .

I like to tell those who ask, “I like books; they don’t need electricity and they have no moving parts.”

I find it very had to get to even the title page of a book with no moving parts . . . I suppose I could use an x-ray machine or something, but . . .

Waldens collapsed some years after I left.

ahh, so that’s why . . .

You know how old I am. Read Captain Easy /Buz Sawyer in the paper.

But you didn’t get Tom Sawyer signed at an author event, now did you?

And there’s the tactile sense of the old dust on the top edge of a really good find in an old used book mart. Thrill of the hunt.

On the flip side, there’s the blood loss to the psycho cat that lives in the stacks.

I once got warned about him when they saw me go to those sheles.

An they meant it . . .