When you are cleaning up, moving, rearranging the furniture, hiding the meth lab, etc., do you ever come across books ab
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drunkbear — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 06:51 PM)
When you are cleaning up, moving, rearranging the furniture, hiding the meth lab, etc., do you ever come across books about which you must ask yourself: "Where did I get THIS one?"
I've been doing some cleanup around my meth lab, lately, and I've found books that I never knew I owned. Some of them I can document, with bookstore receipts. No documentation on the others; I must have bought them at a garage sale or a farm auction, at some point.
Is your collection well-organized, or might you have half a bushel of books that you have totally forgotten acquiring?- Lord, have mercy on a country boy
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Speed_of_Late — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 06:21 AM)
Usually the "where" is easy enough; I buy mostly used hardcovers from only two or three places. But the "why" is often a mystery when I discover an old purchase. Did I really think I might read that one?
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darryl-tahirali — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 04:32 PM)
Is your collection well-organized, or might you have half a bushel of books that you have totally forgotten acquiring?
It is reasonably well-organized, but I live in a small condo and don't have much storage space. Two boxes of paperbacks in the closet is it for books not already in bookshelves. My boxes of CDs are already under the bed.
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Bargle77 — 9 years ago(October 21, 2016 04:55 PM)
My collection is reasonably well organized these days, but I do have this annoying habit of buying books I already have a copy of. Sometimes it's understandable, like a new cover throwing me off, but sometimes there's just no excuse. Several years ago I found a copy of a True Crime book I'd been wanting for a while. After looking it over, I went to put it on the shelf and found another copy already there. To this day I don't remember when or where I bought the first one.
It's all like some bad movie.
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furienna — 9 years ago(October 22, 2016 08:52 AM)
My collection is reasonably well organized these days, but I do have this annoying habit of buying books I already have a copy of. Sometimes it's understandable, like a new cover throwing me off, but sometimes there's just no excuse. Several years ago I found a copy of a True Crime book I'd been wanting for a while. After looking it over, I went to put it on the shelf and found another copy already there. To this day I don't remember when or where I bought the first one.
Ouch That happens to me too all the time.
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