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Sep 29, 2007 04:45AM

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I think between the main store and their technical bookstore (about 2 blocks away) I have spent as long as 6 hours...





Seriously, it is a force of will to stay away from bookstores because I loose all sense of time - and my net worth - in them. I don't know if that makes it worse, though, because then, when said will crumbles, I drink the whole well dry for the thirst.
Hours and hours and hours and hours, in short.

I cannot go to a bookstore with anyone, even another bibliophile, because I feel guilty for taking so long and then I feel rushed.
I am so obsessed with bookstores that I don't think I'll ever be finished with reading everything in my home library. I buy them faster than I can read them. I usually buy six to eight per week and I only read an average of two per week.


Glad I got that out. I think I'll be ok *sniff*.
This is cheating, of course, but when I owned a used book shop I'd pull the occasional all-nighter. Every once in a while I take a road trip from the Seattle area to San Diego. I try to schedule about 4 hours in Powell's (Portland). Yeah, right. They serve coffee & carbohydrates, so if you can find a place to hide overnight it's not like you have to leave until scurvy or anemia start to kick in (are bagels iron-fortified?). Inevitably, my attempts to leave before rush-hour fail, and I decide I'd rather sit in the Rose Room than in traffic (for the uninitiated, Powell's identifies different rooms--some larger than other bookstores--with colors). I don't think I've spent a full 8 hours there, but I know I've cleared 6 1/2.

:)

Thanks.


