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Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:23 am
by fanMNM
virre- ok, I'm even jealous of your "wall of books!"
I have one small bookcase that is overflowing (ok, overflowing may be a huge understatment...LOL) Right now I am in negotiations with my husband to close in our small back porch so I can use that as a mini library. He thinks I am nuts but I think if I keep nagging he might give in
I've already told him our next house is gonna need to have a spare room for my books!
My biggest lament is that I don't live near a well stocked library. Our library is tiny and gets zero good books!! I'm seriously cutting into our budget with my frequent eBaying! I used to sell my books to make back the money to buy new ones, but what happens when I have a book I want to keep?? Which I often do want to keep them!! Then I am stuck...
Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:00 pm
by Openhome
I use Shelfari, same concept.
It is nice to go and look at other people's shelves and see what you really did want to read. I tend to forget a lot. Also, it feels really good to move a book over to the "read" spot!
Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:06 pm
by blasphemous_contessa
I am so glad I moved the Washington. All the libraries in the state are interconnected so if I want to read a book from the Forks library or teh Aberdeen library or Tacoma or wherever I just click the book and type in my passcode and a few days later I get a phone call to pick it up from the check otu counter. I don't know what Bella was complaining about.
Since moving here I've read every Orson Scott Card, Donna Jo Naploi, Charles de Lint, K.A. Applegate, and Kurt Vonnegut novel I could never find btu wanted to read.
also try
Book Crossings it's a website where people can arrange to trade books with other people or just leave them in random places and post the location of the books.
Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 1:54 am
by dimber
Having a room of my own, full of books, an armachair and a fireplace would be heaven! Actually, when hubby and I bought our new flat we looked for a three-bedroom one so I could use the third bedroom as a reading/studying room. At the moment a dear friend of ours is living with us and I don't think we'll arrange the room for a couple of years but it's good to know I'll finally have my personal study room. My books are scattered through three different bookshelves in the living room (I'll post a pic soon) and in one of the bedrooms, and some are still in some boxes in the garage....choosing which ones I wanted to keep with me has been pretty hard!
Our local library is well stashed and it's connected to the other libraries in the city so you can have almost all the books you wan. The only fault is that, being an Italian library, it has books in Italian only...and since I prefer to read in the original language I use the library only when the original books are not available or too expensive through amazon and ebay.
Contessa: I've already tried bookcrossing and I must confess I don't like it at all for three main reasons. First, people here tend to bookcross only books which are not woth reading, like cooking recipes or those super-cheap essays on Atlantis or aliens. Second, if you find a book you like you can't keep it and it can be very annoying, especially when it's a very old book that is not published any more. Three, most of the people bookcrossing have no respect for the books so you have to read books which are in the worst condition.
Shelfari: I do have a shelf there but I should update it...my screen name is Dimber or Dimberaidiel (I can't remember right now), as usual
Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:46 am
by skinnybones4
I can't go into a bookstore unless I have money. If I leave the bookstore without something I get a case of depression and headaches
Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:21 am
by virre
skinnybones4 wrote:I can't go into a bookstore unless I have money. If I leave the bookstore without something I get a case of depression and headaches
haha, i have kind of the same problem.. just that in my case, the problem is when i go into a bookstore and cant find anything new, then i get sad ... or even worse if i find a book that i have been looking for, and it has the wrong cover, or is in paperback, or the wrong language ect... days like that i usualy end up spending the day online trying to find the right version
Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 12:03 pm
by fanMNM
hmm...I can honstly say I've never once in my entire life walked into a bookstore and not been able to find something I wanted to buy. I don't think I've ever left a book store without buying something! My problem is always that I want to buy too much! It's a sickness. It doesn't help that I like reading sooo many different genres and different books. Not so hard to find something when you are open to reading almost anything
Re: Book Addicts Anonymous
Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:21 pm
by virre
my problem is that i dont like to buy books i have not read, it's the same with movies (it's a way to protect myself from filling up my shelfs with stuff i dont like) So when i go in to a bookstore i usually browse through the books that look interesting and then barrow the one's that look promising at the library, and then go back and buy it if i liked it
So when i actually buy something at the bookstore its something i have already read 99% of the time.