Books as collectables
Hardcover? Or paperback?
Illustrations? Or just text?
First editions? Or you don’t care?
Signed by the author? Or not?
I have hardcovers and I have paperbacks. I have illustrated books, I have plain text books. I may have some first editions, I may have some advanced reader copies. I have signed and unsigned books (mostly unsigned). Heck, I even have some books in electronic form.
At one point I wanted to own every book I have ever read in Hardback form. Wow, how silly of me. Now, I loath buying hardcovers and am as likely to give away a paperback as let someone borrow it. The exception being Trade sized paperbacks, they are just too expensive. I think it is important to have a nice home library, but you have to draw the line somewhere. There is a difference between home library and home is a library.
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As the combination of our collections have put our bookshelves to the max'd out point, I've had to review my desire to have a library that included every book I've ever read. Now it's almost a trade of new one in, old one out...
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