Joseph ’s Comments (group member since Jul 28, 2009)

Joseph ’s comments from the Book Buying Addicts Anonymous group.

I don't have that ease of buying happen with e-books, but with me it happens quite often with buying used books online. The hunt for titles is so much easier using websites than driving to the few and far between brick and mortar used book stores.

Got another book in:

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My order of arrived today.

I don't know how many of you happen to be librarians like me and will really understand some of these titles, but I hope you get as big a kick out of this as I did. Someone took real paperback covers and gave them new librarian-related titles.
Professional Library Literature

I like to collect books almost as much as I like to read them. There's just something attractive to me about having complete sets or various publications of favorite classic titles like "Treasure Island." I don't go so far as spending great amounts on it, I collect more at the pricings of library used book sales than antiquarian used book stores. If I can get a complete set for a couple of dollars I'll often grab it, but I don't spend hundreds of dollars on single books.

When I was shopping for a house to move into out of my apartment, I had about 5000 books so the main thing I was looking for was one with a lot of rooms for space for my library. Since moving into my new home a little over a year ago my library has already increase by a little over 1000 books. I can't imagine moving again because it took a couple months of packing and unpacking and driving my car back and forth from apartment to house to move my collection the first time.

Got used and new this week.

IMO if you can afford it, I see nothing wrong with buying books that look good on the shelf even if you don't think you will read them. it's no different than buying paintings to hang on the walls to me. if you have the space and the money, I say go ahead and collect nice sets.

John wrote: "I am probably a lot older than you , I have over 4,000 books for real and would never think of moving. My worry now is what will happen to the books when I am dead. They do not make a casket larg..."

I know what you mean. When I bought my house, I made sure it was large with lots of rooms so I would plenty of space for my 6000+ book library with room to grow. I always dreamed that when I died my house would be donated to the town as the new public library, just like in The Library. I really don't know what will happen to them all, maybe they can be sold in an estate sale and the money given to charity. I certainly will forbid they are just thrown away.

Eric wrote: "Curious whether this group was only about those buying physical books. I bought so many physical books that I filled three large bookshelves. Some shelves with the small airport-size paperbacks are..."

Eric, please feel welcome to discuss all formats of books, physical, audio, and e-books here.

Marianthi wrote: "Sorry about spelling, typed on phone. Darn small keys" No big deal, that's not the worst typo you can get with that word. I've seen "public" typed without the L. ;-)

One book I ordered in March arrived today:

I very very very rarely lend books. I don't like to let others borrow my books, but I find it rare that friends or family want to borrow my books anyway.

April showers bring May flowers. What books will your April purchases bring you? Share your April book buys here.

As I said earlier in this thread: "I usually read series' books as they come out or as I get hold of them from the library, so I'm often reading multiple series at one time." But I just realized that I do sometimes read a series' books back to back, or rather I REread a series' books that way. From time to time when I have the time and the interest, I do reread a whole series, usually a short and completed one.

So far, I've read 74 of 250 books (30%) which puts me 14 books ahead of schedule.

Fijke wrote: "I usually just read one work of fiction at a time, because I get into a book more that way. Also, if I have multiple books going on at the same time I often lose interest in one or several of them,..."

Yes, I very rarely can get into more than one book at a time. I have to finish the one I am currently reading before starting another. If I don't, I often end up putting aside the first book for anywhere from days to years having only gotten through it part way and when I do pick it up again, I have to start all over with it.

Picked up on the library's used book shelf:

It is interesting to me that this is brought up now. I just got a book I have been waiting a long time for, but it turned out to be 686 pages, pretty much making it double the size of a usual read for me which has me hemming and hawing a bit over getting started in it. I probably will read it, but I am just not jumping into it as fast as I do with a common 300-pager.