Well pfui, your table sounds like a great addition to a dealers room, but I guess they have other ideas.
We still have the 15,000 books, or the four-person equivalent. I have (well mostly) stopped buying paper books because there is nowhere to put them. We lack a panic-inducing event to provide the impetus for culling. I will start a conversation: "We don't really need ANY Piers Anthony, do we?" "Welllll, maybe just X." "And Y." "No Xanth!" "Maybe the first three?" and it all goes to pieces.
I won't even get started on the multiple editions of LoTR and how the experience of reading the one-volume edition with its Bible-paper pages is different from reading my battered paperbacks, one of which got dropped in the bathtub.
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Date: 2023-12-31 09:30 pm (UTC)We still have the 15,000 books, or the four-person equivalent. I have (well mostly) stopped buying paper books because there is nowhere to put them. We lack a panic-inducing event to provide the impetus for culling. I will start a conversation: "We don't really need ANY Piers Anthony, do we?" "Welllll, maybe just X." "And Y." "No Xanth!" "Maybe the first three?" and it all goes to pieces.
I won't even get started on the multiple editions of LoTR and how the experience of reading the one-volume edition with its Bible-paper pages is different from reading my battered paperbacks, one of which got dropped in the bathtub.
P.