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Bookcases
« on: January 04, 2005, 06:28:51 PM »
I now have 12 bookcases in my house, not counting the makeshift port winebox bookcases...  (about 3 of them)and I need more... in fact tonight im going to target to buy two more bookcases. gahhhh!!!
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2005, 07:49:30 PM »
Now that's my kind of house!
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2005, 09:01:05 PM »
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You WILL give me half of your book collection! These are not the droids... umm..oops.
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2005, 09:49:25 PM »
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2005, 10:48:04 PM »
Well One 3 shelfer is my abridged RPG collection, while the others are for our  serious books. The secret to having a great library... Library general booksales in the DC area. Biannually the Arlington County public library puts on a sale of books that they can use (too many copies to little space etc.) we've walked away from that monster with the back of my car completely filled for about 100 bucks. keep in mind my car is a light truck/suv. Its funny just how many books I end up owning... Just before coming up here for the Headquarters Job, I lost all my books to an ex-girlfriend. Probably about 500 volumes... nothing too precious as all the valuable stuff was with me. I have a growing collection of first editions, Rare and autographed books now too. The Armada by Garrett Mattingly... an unreleased publishers proof of The Sun The moon and the Stars by Stephen Brust... the first American Printing of Hitchhikers Guide, a collection of Robert Burns poems that my dad owned, a copy of W. Somerset Maughms The razors edge and a Copy of Mort signed by Terry Pratchett. But my real love is history, and my history books are hard to count. My wife,... she loves art and art history, and so she has dozens and dozens of Art books. Throw in a sizable cookbook collection (another 3 shelfer or 2) and some classics (Tolstoy, Sholtzenitzen, Kafka, Tolkien, Heller, Wilde, Yeats, The Sagas of the icelanders, Stienbeck, Orwell, and my wifes collection of sociology works and its a crowded house. Plus I still need a case for our Simpsons figures and playsets...
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2005, 11:33:08 PM »
So jeffe, have you read all of these?
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2005, 11:37:29 PM »
every book I own I have read, although my wife has some books I havent read yet.
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2005, 03:35:54 AM »
My books are still all in boxes, except for the manga which is either on one shelf with my roommate's manga, or just stacked on the floor.

Will need to get some after I move.
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2005, 09:02:09 AM »
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I lost all my books to an ex-girlfriend. Probably about 500 volumes... nothing too precious as all the valuable stuff was with me.

Except for my copy of Star Warriors which also had all my Car Wars tokens in it.

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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2005, 09:50:00 AM »
and two highschool yearbooks that I'll never get back...

but you know... in the long run it was worth it.
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Re: Bookcases
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2005, 05:19:27 PM »
Our bed is sitting on cement blocks and the spacious space under said bed is filled with boxes of books ranging from picture books to religious texts to Sci Fi/Fantasy. I love books.
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