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I have box upon box of books that no one wants. Drives me nuts. You think some day care would love to have the 150 or so perfect condition Dr. Suess books I can't get rid of.
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Whenever I lend paperback books to people, I make sure I have their solemn word that they will not crease the spines.
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I move a lot, and I find throwing away books to be rather a necessity. It doesn't bother me.
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I - no way in hell can I ever throw away a book, just - never, no way. If I have to get rid of them (which rarely happens, only twice in my life when I had to make major moves, and I STILL pine for my old long-gone books) then I give them away, to anyone, friends, a used-book store, anyone, but never would I throw a book away. Same thing with clothes, I hate to throw away clothes, won't do it.
I don't know why, but there it is. I really do love books.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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I make a distinction between nice books and *****y paperbacks. I've no compunction about throwing away *****y paperbacks (by recycling of course). There're some books where reading once suffices, and I really don't need yet another bookshelf of overflowing books.
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![]() I was glad though that I finally got her to read something more... intellectual then the Dutch equivalent of Teen Magazine or something. (Hmm, I'm not quite sure if Teen Magazine was actually an American magazine, but you get the point)
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Books? Love 'em! I just laughed when people said (years ago) that electronic books would replace "real" books. Riiiiiight!
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I read Crime & Punishment in the REAL BOOK version, NOT the electronic!
*sticks nose in air and tongue out at hector* ![]() (finished it last night - stayed up WaaaaaaY too late - great book!)
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I've read many books online. Most of the classics are available, as well as a lot of stuff that is out of print or very hard to find. Electronic books will never completely replace printed ones any more than cars have replaced horses, but they will change the dynamic quite a bit as to what is and isn't available.
If you guys and gals can read and write thousands of posts on the 'moot, surely you can also read a book online. ![]() As far as unwanted books, a few years back a girl who use to work for me started this thing where we put a few bookshelves in the lunchroom here at work for people to put books they don't want anymore but don't want to throw away. It's become a kind of free library over the years.
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I do have a story to tell about underlining, though. I bought a book by H. P. Lovecraft on eBay once; when it got here, I flipped through it. I noticed that the previous owner had been underlining, and was rather amused to see what he had been underlining. If any of you don't know H. P. Lovecraft, he was an old-time master of horror fiction in the true sense, a lot of stuff dealing with ancient terrors which drive men mad to think of, things like that. Anyway, the previous owner had been underlining the kinds of woods burned in a sort of magickalritual in the book, what metals were powdered and used to make a circle, names invoked by some occultist, things like that. As we go further in, he starts underlining more, and more, until finally he starts underlining whole paragraphs, and then he eventually starts scribbling furiously in the margins pseudo-mystical mumbo jumbo about Keys and what-not, which culminated in "Illusioned Reality or Real Illusion? The Gate holds the answer." The moral of the story is, if you want a good laugh, buy your Lovecraft used. ![]()
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I have been reading the short stories we've been assigned in English class online because I can't afford to buy the real book. :/ It's worked out well. I want the real one though just to have though because there's a lot of good stuff in it. It's a Norton anthology. Online books are fine, I mean, it's not like I have a problem with reading that way, but I still vastly prefer paper copies.
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