It is strange going itno? Into a place that has no books -as an old atheist
I have quite a collection of bibles one sort of suitcase size
P
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Sent: 26 June 2010 09:45
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Subject: Re: how to organise your books
Mark,
A house without books is not a thing I'd dream about. Couldn't imagine life
without books.
Roger
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From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: how to organise your books
> I've built 342 feet of shelves in my apartment. They would have fit
> all the books I stored for the five years since I left my last digs.
> I tried very hard to refrain from acquiring, but people give me
> books, and the flesh is weak. So I disposed of over a thousand books
> to a local used book store for $300 dollars. None were worth a lot,
> many I'd never read again (or in some cases for the first time. There
> was a whole box of missionary magazines from the 1840s, reports from
> remote regions. Early anthro, right? Wrong. Not too many of those
> guys were particularly observant. Books once thought classics that
> would have been fun to read but who has time, so I'll probably go to
> my grave not having read The Rise of the Dutch Republic. Books I
> really love but only keep because I really love them--not hard to
> find another pb of Gatsby when the urge strikes. The result--I can
> shelve all my books, but not one more, and they keep coming. And then
> there are those seven boxes of books that do have commercial value,
> enshrined under my bed. I have dreams of a house without books.
>
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