Books you like so much you own them twice

[Jane]

There are some books I am so enamoured of that I own them both in paper copies and on my Kindke.

I wondered how many other folks do this, and if so what books?

I'll start the ball rolling with my own list...

Off the top of my head I have.
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
A Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
The Elenium trilogy and The Tamuli trilogy by David Eddings
And half a dozen of Georgette Heyer's historical novels

[Alicia]

Dune - Frank L. Herbert
Dorothy L. Sayers Strong Poison -> Busman's Honeymoon (the last four Peter Wimsey novels)

[Jud]

Harry Potter (all of them plus the audio books) I imagine Elle is with me on this :o)
Jane Eyre

[Alicia]

Jud (Disney Diva) wrote: "Harry Potter (all of them plus the audio books) I imagine Elle is with me on this :o)
Jane Eyre"

Love Jane Eyre, have ebook plus my childhood hardcover copy. Have read it out loud to my children.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

I also have The Elenium trilogy and The Tamuli trilogy by David Eddings plus Belgarath, Polgara and The Redemption of Althalus.

The other one is Lord of the Rings.

[Kat]

I have several books in both paper and ebook, but mostly it was a case of my paper order not being delivered on time and not wanting to wait for it so I got the Kindle version in the meantime.

Off the top of my head, The Last Kingdom was one of those, as well as Last Train to Istanbul.

[Marie Silk]

I have the paperback and hardback of "Black Elk Speaks". I suppose I need an ebook now to make my collection complete.

[Jim]

I've got two or three copies of the Lord of the Rings in paperback because one wore out and then I picked up another cheap and then somebody gave me a third

[Andrew]

I had the original paperback of Good Omens, and then couldn't resist the nice hardback edition with the reversible cover a few years ago...

[B J]

I have quite a few - but almost by accident, rather than design. I have loads of the Delphi 'Complete Works of...' on Kindle. As a result I've duplicated a number of books I already owned in print format.

[Kelly]

I have most of the classics in both formats (Jane Eyre, Brontes etc etc), the first 10 or so of the In Death series, most of Jilly Coopers . . . however, what I do more and more is download an e-copy of a book I already have on my physical shelves . . . the you can carry it around with you.
Have to say I haven't bought an e-copy and then bought the hard copy - very much the other way around.

[Anita]

I have Lord of the Rings, plus the collectors edition,
The Hobbit,
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell.
All the Charlie Parker novels by John Connolly
The Pillare of The Earth and World Without end by Ken Follett
All the Shardlake novels and a few others besides. Well when you enjoy a book that much you just got to have several copies of it.

[Darren]

In no particular order:

The entire Discworld series
Dune
Lost Horizon
It
The Stand
Rendezvous with Rama
Contact
The Lord of the Rings
Come, Hunt an Earthman
The Mists of Avalon
The Hunt for Red October

These are my go to texts that I re-read often.

[Catherine]

Charlie wrote: "I've accidentally bought books I already own, but that's my poor memory rather than it being intentional.
I have picked up a few first edition hardbacks of Stephen King when I already own the paper..."

I've done that too!

[Karen]

Catherine wrote: "Charlie wrote: "I've accidentally bought books I already own, but that's my poor memory rather than it being intentional.
I have picked up a few first edition hardbacks of Stephen King when I alrea..."

Me too! I had two copies of Le Grand Meaulnes and Le Rouge et le Noir although I think one of the latter was in English. I also recently bought a book on collage and painting which looked good, only to find I already had it in hardback - they had changed the pic on the cover though. Luckily I managed to sell it on amazon.

[Tim]

There are some books I own on Kindle and Audible, cos it's cheaper to buy both than spend a credit. Jodi Taylor's St Mary's books and B.V. Larson's Undying Mercenaries series are two such. Otherwise, I have the whole Discworld canon in hardback (mostly signed), audiobook (mates with the narrator) and playscript (mates with the adapter, plus I was in most of them) plus a few Kindle editions. Lord of the Rings in various illustrated, non-illustrated, commemorative, movie, radio play editions. Dune, again some special editions. Peter F Hamilton, again many signed hardbacks, plus Kindle versions for actual reading. More copies of Shakespeare than you could shake a rude mechanical at. Oh and a gorgeous bound hardcover of Milton's Paradise Lost, that I picked up in a second hand bookshop.

[Elizabeth]

So yesterday I would have said that I don't have any duplicated books, but then by one of those amazing coincidences (which apparently don't exist because the odds are that they're bound to happen sometime? - it's on the net) I wandered into the bargain bookstore and spotted a single copy of my favourite in-the real (?) -world romance of all time, which I had lent to someone - you know how the story goes. I had re- bought it on Kindle because it was out of print (one second-hand pb copy selling for £37 on Amazon).
So without further ado, I will introduce you to Every Woman for Herself by Trisha Ashley.

[Patti (baconater)]

Kat wrote: "I have several books in both paper and ebook, but mostly it was a case of my paper order not being delivered on time and not wanting to wait for it so I got the Kindle version in the meantime.

Off..."

Kat, I think you'd love Birds Without Wings

[Patti (baconater)]

Does it count as owning them if they're in a basement in Canada and I'll probably never have them with me again?

If it does, I've got both paper and e-book copies of

All of Piers Anthony's books published up to 15 years ago.
Ditto Stephen King
A bunch of Peter Straub

Cripes, I don't know what all. I've got thousands of books in Canada and thousands of e-books.

The only ones I've got with me are a bunch of 'our' author books.
Darren Humphries
Mary McGuire
Will Jones
Steve Robinson

Ummmm

More but I'm too lazy to shift my arse to look at the shelf.

[Tim]

Elizabeth wrote: "So yesterday I would have said that I don't have any duplicated books, but then by one of those amazing coincidences (which apparently don't exist because the odds are that they're bound to happen ..."

You know what they say: million to one shots pay off nine times out of ten...

[Jane]

Hooray. It's comforting to know it isn't just me.

He who must be listened to calls it money frittering. But that's only because books don't have wheels on them.

[Jamie]

Catcher in the Rye - one old copy from when I first read it as school and a second bought because the first was looking well read.
Also Insomnia by Stephen King. Bought a copy for a girlfriend many moons ago. She didn't get King's work so I ended up keeping it.
I don't own any ebooks strangely enough.