I would never understand .... ( Archived) (21)

I had mine too, I moved so many times and all my books came with me, sometimes I travelled back just to collect them ....

There is always room for one more

All my books I bought from bouquinistes or old people who sell them in front of their houses at a symbolic price (cause they"d hate to throw them away).
They are not too many but carefully selected and exept the Russian and French classics I've never laid my eye on a book that everybody reads...

I don't like that either I always donate mine to either the Library or to the book club I have at work.

I only keep reference books, I dont bother with novels or fiction, I pass them on.

I get great satisfaction from finding a book at a garage sale etc., for somebody else.

Mainly I buy mostly magazines that have recipes in them and once I get through with them I toss them out.

Hopefully you live in a well built house, preferably with steel beams in the ceilings as I have read in a newspaper that on a few occasions someone's ceiling had collapsed in apt. buildings from the weight of thousands of books in the apartment above them. A few were in New York City...one person was found to have had several hundred stolen from the NYC Library... What a mess those collapses must have been and the repairs must have taken several months...Not surprised though as I've seen some with only very narrow paths through the apartments, and houses, due to all the floor to ceiling stacks of books , magazines and newspapers....and god knows what else that may have entered, lived and died in those stacks...
Yes I love books generally but only have collected certain types. I'd love to live in the Vatican Library, or even the the Huntington Library or the central Library in Paris ,Valencia, Berlin or some others. I have always envied those that can loot cities in a time of war...I'd always go for the art galleries and libraries first, then perhaps the banks... Wars can teach one many lessons; for me one was ,be a pirate...