I was sitting here at the desk + looking around at all my books here on this floor; the downstairs is full. I got to thinking about rearranging furniture to perhaps build a floor to ceiling bookshelves to encompass the entire 2nd floor + my bedroom. I freely admit to being a bibliophile whore. My ex once told me in one of her fits of rage, "I'll just bet you would be happy with a harem of librarians!" I could'nt argue with that;I would like that very much.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
I was sitting here at the desk + looking around at all my books here on this floor; the downstairs is full. I got to thinking about rearranging furniture to perhaps build a floor to ceiling bookshelves to encompass the entire 2nd floor + my bedroom. I freely admit to being a bibliophile whore. My ex once told me in one of her fits of rage, "I'll just bet you would be happy with a harem of librarians!" I could'nt argue with that;I would like that very much.

I am the same way with guns and books.

My goal is to get rid of both over time.

I buy books only if I give away 2-5 books for each book I buy.

I am going to do the same with guns. I have to give away or sell 2 guns for every new gun I buy.

My goal in life is to get rid of stuff.

I am just buying storing, packing and cleaning stuff for the foreseeable future.

Mike

I have always thought one of those Victorian style houses with library , and of course a gun room, would be cool. Floor to ceiling book shelves with one of those ladders on rollers. After visiting the National Arboretum in D.C. I would also add a 2-3 story attached green house with full size tropical trees, birds, and a running stream to the house. What a great place to go and sit and read on a cold winter day.
C.G.B.

I will never get rid of my books! Guns, yes, the ones I don't use, but with books, you never know when you might need it!
Guns, you know which ones you will need. Books, no!
Peter.

When we moved back here, we brought about a tonne of books at seventy cents per pound, after giving away about a third of them (and about a third of furniture, cars, and a couple of other categories of loot). I'm starting to thin the stuff out, too. I've adopted too many treasures over the last 20 years.

How many people reread a book ?

How many books in ones collection are

(1) read
(2) re-read
(3) used as a reference

I figured I would start my book cull by getting rid of graduate school text books, math books and law books. Most are gone.

My goal is to get rid of 50 books in next 12 months and not buy anymore than 10 books.

Books also get terribly dusty if not sued and stored for a while.

Mike

"How many people reread a book ?
How many books in ones collection are

(1) read
(2) re-read
(3) used as a reference"

Yes to all the above!
Peter.

Me too Peter. If you have ever seen the Robin Williams movie "What Dreams May Come" you will remember the scene in Heaven when Max Von Sydow is floating down a corridor of bookshelves that goes on into eternity in the distance. Now that is my idea of Heaven.

Just got back from the library. Picked up the DVD of "What Dreams may Come"!
Peter.

I read and set too much so I took up shooting pool to maybe help with my pistol shooting.
Now I find it's doing me some good.

Randy, if you do this you simply must have one of those sliding-ladder-on-rail systems. A wall of books 12 feet high is very impressive.
I gave up my book habit sometime in the last eight moves in about 14 years. Gave boxloads to the local friends of the library. Of course, I am constantly reaching for a reference I no longer own, but I have come to laugh at it. It is much easier to find a book when you have fewer than 500 ...
What I really miss is the articles in the Handloader and Rifle magazines I tossed. I am too cheap to pay Wolfe for digital access to magazines I once bought.

I had a random thought a few days ago; Scrabble must be nuts in German, with their compound words that can fill up the board.

Oh, I agree Bill, I just can't afford to add on another wing on the house to accommodate more library, much as I'd like. As to moving!!! Perish the thought! As you know I have a sheet metal shop. Every piece of equipment, when moved in, was done by heavy machinery. The thought of moving terrifies me. I know about getting rid of old magazines as well. When I was married to my ex (Satan's sister) she threw a royal tirade because I had all my old National Geographic mags. So I gave them to an old friend of mine (he was born in 1913). After he got them he would call me up almost daily + say to me "Randy, do you know where I went today? I went to China, then I went to India, etc. " You get the picture, I never felt bad about giving my magazines away after that. They were truly appreciated. Now my Military History Quarterlys will NEVER leave home.

Randy, I am protective of my SPG Black Powder Cartridge News magazines as well, being a charter subscriber ...
LDO, the Germans do have a talent for compounding words, don't they!

Ya Vohl,+ du will ferschtein, or else. I like being a Kraut, I can be insulating without some libtard waving a
P.C. flag.

Norman Conquest, just think how much you would enjoy those books if you learned how to read. Yes crayons are fun, but you'd get much more reading them.