POLL: Where do you buy your books?

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Agreed, but if you have around 2,500 books and are reading them at a rate of 1-2 per week, you're not going to have time to read all of them again, plus read all the new ones that you're no doubt buying. I just can't see how anyone can have enough time to do that and go to work / school or have the space to store them all. But as I am clearly in the minority in being flabbergasted at this, I will shut up now.

 

True words, Taluntain, true words.

Also, we have some books double (though only a few). "Krabat" for example, we have at least three copies of (I don't know why). We also used to buy a lot of books when the library had spring cleaning, and got rid of older books ("1984" 50 Euro-cents, for example)

 

It is nice to be able to read any of the books in my collection whenever I feel like doing so, plus I can look up details in previous books in a series when I am reading the latest book.

That being said, I also collect books for the purpose of collecting and displaying them. I like books and the two rooms of my house where I spend the most non-sleeping time have large shelving units full of them. Anyone who buys Easton Press books who tells you that they don't buy books to collect/display is flat out lying - after all you could buy the book in the normal hard cover format for a third of the price or in paper back for one tenth of the price.

Personally, I have not had as much free time to read as I used to so I have quite a backlog of unread books - but with my new job and commuting via train that problem should be resolving itself.

 

I said I was going to shut up but I found JSBB's last post to be even more amazing.

So you're saying that not only do you have an incredible number of books but:
a) you buy them at 10 times the normal price! and
b) you lug big hardbacks around when reading on the train!

I wish you lived near me, because then I would be able to come around and borrow from your extensive collection whenever I wanted to read a book.

This is why I like Sorcerer's Place. Every day I found out such fascinating insights into how other people live their lives.

 

Yep, they cost 10 times the normal price of a paperback (which I will always avoid in favour of a hard cover if possible) but you get a beautiful leather bound edition with gold inlay on the cover and the quality of paper is amazing. They look great on the book shelf and have a great feel to them.

I generally don't bring them on the train but I do bring normal hard covers. I almost never take my Easton Press books out of my home-office. I have a very nice leather recliner in my office that I sit in to read them.

 

Well, I don't buy books at 10 times the normal price.

But I dream of that copy of "The Neverending Story" which a friend told me about. How it had been described inside (Because the book "The Neverending Story" kind of tells, how Bastian Balthasar Bux reads the book "The Neverending Story". So you got a book inside itself).

The description (translated by me from the german original):

"He lifted the book and examined it from all angles. The cover was of copper silk and shimmered, when he moved it. Volatilely paging through, he saw that the writing was printed in two different colours. There didn't appear to be any pictures, but beautiful large initial letters. When he examined once again, this time closer, he discover two snakes, one dark and one light, that bit each others tail, thus forming an oval, on it. And in this oval was written in peculiarly wound letters the title:

The Neverending Story "


Then follows something about the love for beautiful books, which would actually also be appropriate here (I also love beautiful books. I read paperbacks, but I am extra careful with my hardcovers), but is too long to quote now.

I wish I had that book...

But the version I have is also beautiful. A hardcover book in a dark red cover (though not silk), with the snakes (the Auryn) and title pressed into the textile. Inside the book, they also have the big, illuminated initial letters, and it is also all printed in two colours (red for what happens in Bastian's world, green for what happens in the book). The book is also in a protective paper sleeve, which is quite nice.

*drool* (but careful to not drool on my book)