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I've gotta stop buying books

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Over the past 3 days, I've bought almost a dozen books. Mysteries, comedies, biographies, fantasies. . .

My bookshelves are full already.

Not to worry. There's plenty of room on my bedroom floor to pile them up.
 
How many have you got?

I stopped counting when it got passed 3,000...

and that was about 4 years ago.
 
I'm the same, I buy way too many books and I'm such an irregular and slow reader that I have at least 300 waiting to be read. Too many other distractions (JUB for instance).
 
I've been collecting books since I was 9 years old when my mom bought a copy of The Secret Garden when I was sick with the German measles. In 1985, I had shelves built on two walls of my bedroom and pulled all my books out of storage and shelved them. I stopped counting at 2,000. I've since converted an unused bedroom into a library and have shelves on all four walls with the books stacked double (one row behind the other) on all shelves, and two bookcases in the living room with books stacked the same way...

Is there a cure for bibliomania? !oops!

Check it out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_collector

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliophily

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliomania
 
I always have several of stacks of books laying around--so does my bf. I buy most of my books at used book stores. When I'm done reading a stack,I take it back to the book store and they buy them back from me. Usually I get credit for more books! That way my reading addiction kind of pays for itself...|
 
Almost all my bookshelves are stacked two deep, and almost every wall which isn't a window or a wardrobe or a desk has a book shelf on it. I don't buy as many books as I used to, but somehow I keep accumulating then anyway. As Sydney Smith (he of the quote in my sig) said: "There's no furniture so charming as books."

-T.
 
..|Set a budget. When it is gone it is gone and do not allow a varience. You have just revealed one of the nicest things about you, you like to read. If you need a library card, I hope you have a good library near by and can visit regularly.
If you want to write, this might be a good time to plan a plot line and begin to try your hand at writing. But buying books is a turn on to me. A tip of my hat to you.
 
I have this problem, too. Also, I love movies, TV, and JUB. I need to cut down on one of those, so I can read more. I am such a slow reader, but I love books.
 
A good portion of my collection are books I remember reading when I was a boy in school. Nowadays, if you go to a library and look for them, they aren't there anymore. Books that a lot of us remember reading back in the Forties, Fifties, Sixties, and to some degree, the Seventies, are simply not to be found in local libraries anymore...

I'm talking about books like the Henry Huggins/Ribsy books, the Danny Dunn science adventures, the Miss Pickerell books, the Penrod books, the wonderful Dr. Doolittle books, the Spaceship Under the Apple Tree series, to name a few... I remember reading the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books. But there were others - the Bar X Bar Boys, Tom Swift and Tom Swift Jr., the Power Boys, the Tarzan books, and so on and so on...

I enjoy re-reading favorite classics like Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, and classic authors like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells...

One of my favorite series was just four books, a science fiction series written by Carl Claudy "Adventures in the Unknown." I re-read at least one of those every year - my gosh, that man could write!

The feeling of re-reading a really good book is just indescribable...
 
Shepherd 2 said:
..|If you need a library card, I hope you have a good library near by and can visit regularly.
If you want to write, this might be a good time to plan a plot line and begin to try your hand at writing.
Click to expand...

I have a library card and a library only a few blocks away. There are also 5 stores which sell used books in the same block and, in the downtown mall, there is a store which sells new books at half price.

As for the writing, well. . . I guess you haven't visited the Story Forum in JUB yet.
 
Buying books can be an addiction like anything else - another facet of the hoarding mentality. But owning a lot of books doesn't make you a better person, not does it allow you to acquire the knowledge inside the books if you don't study them.

Another difficulty with book collections is how to house them - this can be problematic as you grow older and start moving from house to house or country to country.

Every now and then it's worth culling through your library and discarding those that no longer have any value for you. Unless books are collectors items they don't offer a lot of resale value - you'd be better off keeping any rare books because they increase in value.

Second-hand bookstores often buy books back for cash or as a trade-in. That's a good way of reducing your number of books. If you have books you've owned for a year but have never read you should get rid of them or not allow yourself to buy any more until they have been read.

Ask for book vouchers for birthday and Xmas presents. Every time you acquire a new book get rid of an old one. Charity shops or hospitals will often take unwanted books off your hands. Leave a book in a public place with an inscription in the front asking each person who finds it to read it, write on the inscription page where they read it, and to leave it in a public place again when they've finished - it's fascinatting to see how these books travel round the world.
 
I've got books, magazines, political journals, humor, game magazines, science stuff, etc. which stacks up to around 40 feet of unread stuff. That probably includes at least 60 or 70 books - really the majority of space is stuff other than books.

But, considering that I've actually read only 3 or 4 books since the 1980's, that's still a waste.
 
i have a lot of books as well. i think i have a "problem" with it. lol. i don't have anywhere near that 3,000 number above. i'd say i have a couple hundred maybe. two bookshelves are full. then a lot are still in boxes and stuff from the move here 15 months ago. ;)
 
During my 3 years in Uni i bought a shit-load of books - read most of them and still use a lot of them for personal further study on specific subjects.

A large percentage of them I doubt i'll ever use again and could re-sell them on Amazon.com (beer money :mrgreen:) but I just can't bear the thought of parting with them - Each book is a gem of knowledge offering a specific viewpoint on a given subject - unique.

Ok, i'll hand you back over to Noni...
 
That's funny.......I bought 7 this weekend and I thought "You have about 30 that you haven't even read...WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!?"

My husband is not a reader and doesn't even question anymore.
He even helps me pick them out!

Here's my logic.....I'm "thrifty" so If I see a book that interests me at the used book store I frequent I have to get it because it'll be snatched up.
Now if I see a book at Wal-mart I get it because they don't stay on the racks long due to rotation!

Border books....coupons only with my Rewards card!
WOW..what a treat that is...I usually leave the place with glazed eyes and a little drool at the corner of my mouth!
Barnes & Noble...this is where I make my list of "Books I want."
TOO PRICEY!!!](*,)

I LOVE TO READ!!!(!)
 
I got a tonne of books that I've collected over the years. I've converted an upstairs room into a study, 3 bookcases of stuff there, and another room downstairs with three more book cases, plus separately tonnes of science and computing magazine, my old university notes, my photocopied archive of stuff I've used as research for writing stuff in webpages I've written over the years....

I think there must be at least a coupla thousand items, enough to start a small library. I've also leant stuff to my nephew, my sister and other folk. The worst thing that happened lending things to other people is that they don't give it back. I found out that one girl I leant an engineering mathematics book too, left it in her locker and only told me after she'd left the school. I was lucky to get a replacement copy on Ebay.

I don't think I'll stop buying books. They're like a temptation. EVery time I'm in HK, I end up returning with a bag full of books, or wind up sending them over by post. You can't get stuff in Chinese on the subjects I'm interested in. And in English, they're virtually ivory tower stuff like Shang Dynasty writing and dictionaries to do with bronze inscriptions.
 
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