suliman on 12/8/2009 at 04:24
Around... 70-80, I guess. Over half of those are Jules Verne books, 15 or so are by Asimov, and the rest is science fiction by a whole lot of different guys. I've called a moratorium on all further book purchasing activity until I finish reading those I already own and all the stuff at the local library.
Aja on 12/8/2009 at 06:02
Surprisingly few for an english major... sitting on my shelves right now: about 60 or 70 novels, probably a third of which I haven't finished, 20-odd nonfiction books (stuff like travel lit and anthropology), and 20-odd textbooks (including anthologies and stuff like Canterbury Tales). Well I suppose I have stacks of books from elementary school when I used to read like a fish, but I don't even know which box those are in. Since I started this degree four years ago I haven't read much outside of school.
theBlackman on 12/8/2009 at 06:21
Being a cheap son-of-a-bitch, I buy mine at garage/jumble sales, the used bookstore at the library etc.
I have approximately 630 feet of bookshelves, with the books to fill them, and about 15 feet of shelves with vinyl recordings, 20 feet of shelving with VHS tapes, 8 feet with Beta tapes, and about 700 CDs and DVDs. And another 20 feet of Video games and applications.
I can't even come close to the cost. But then this represents almost 50 years of buying and keeping. This does not count the 3 or 4 I read each week and then donate to charities or the library stores.
They run the gamut. Cookbooks, gardening books, tech manuals on nearly every trade, novels -classical, Sci-fi, adventure, documentary and on and on- I'm an equal opportunity reader. :)
Shayde on 12/8/2009 at 07:07
I collect books - old and new with a few very valuable ones in between. Insurance agent came to evaluate our worth and we had to up our insurance by more than R50 000 for book replacement values. Didn't seem to care that a lot of them are second hand and nearly worthless - Just put a standard value per book. Bloody stupid. :mad:
suliman on 4/10/2009 at 10:35
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So this library in my city decided to get rid of some of their older books. The result:
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http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/4538/img2581z.jpgA whole lot of Asimov, Silverberg and Niven, and a little bit from all sorts of other guys(Herbert, Delany, Heinlein, Lem, Pohl, Zelazny, Le Guin...). Also found Faulkner's Light in August and a 600 page Hemingway biography. All for a little more than 20$:cool:
thefonz on 4/10/2009 at 10:40
ebooks and talking books for the win.
i'm trying to reduce my book collection here purely because i expect my future to be more mobile and if i leave the country then i don't want alot of shit to carry.
saying that, i seem to have acumulated a ton of technical books and i've lugged my entire tom clancy/jrr tolkein/george rr martin collections around with me for the past 4 years.
might be time to get one of those sexy ebook readers i see people on the SUBWAY using.
Namdrol on 4/10/2009 at 10:48
Quote Posted by thefonz
george rr martin collection
When is he going to finally release A Dance with Dragons?
thefonz on 4/10/2009 at 10:58
Quote Posted by Namdrol
When is he going to finally release A Dance with Dragons?
Never. There is no Dance with Dragons. It was all a marketing ploy.
Namdrol on 4/10/2009 at 12:37
The book that never was.:mad:
I keep worrying that he's going to keel over of a heartattack and we'll all be left hanging.
I wonder if he's ever read Misery...
