As it turns out, as much as I enjoy books, that you can have too many books. We had a neighbor who had so many books in the house that they affected the foundation.
Amongst my many other volumes, me Penguin Classics collection of above 700 volumes functions as a veritable Library of Alexandria for me and is undeniably precious.
I am married to a libraian and while I understand the mindset; do I really have to have an overabundance of books filling my bathtub? Don't send money, send shelves.
I concur… but then I was a book group participant for decades, plus a book group moderator for 10 yrs. My iPhone Kindle has the complete works of Jane Austen, plus Dickens, Alexander Dumas, LM Montgomery, Willa Cather, and current read, “There Are Rivers in the Sky”, Elif Shafak.📚
Not sure of my influence, but my brilliant daughter has had a history in books: An early advanced reader; library worker as a teen and in college for a major university’s main library; managed an indie bookstore; now works for a publishing firm, 7 yrs. She still reads — a lot. 📚
Counterpoint, buying books just for the sake of buying is simply shopping and hyperconsumerism and shouldn't be romanticized. You can never READ too many books? I'm right with you! But HAVE? That's a completely different thing imo.
Yeah no, I know, but "book buying and book reading are two different hobbies" or "I have at least 50 unread books at home" sentiments get quirkified A LOT, yk? I just think that e.g. book stores getting mentioned infinitely more than libraries could be tied to bigger conversations in general.
But I didn't mean to say you specifically only want to buy books for the fun of it (which also would be fine anyway). I just see the "buy more books" sentiment everywhere and wanted to offer a general counterpoint, that's all!
I am a first time homebuyer and am so glad to be packing up and moving my books one last time for a long time, maybe forever. It’s such a heavy pain in the butt to move books, makes you wonder if you really need to keep that many and the answer is yeah, they’re necessary.
You can
have too many books when those you’ll never read again are shelved to create an Intellectual image rather than donating them to libraries and book sales in hopes of gaining other readers.
My apartment is a crammed-full library with a small office and a bed. I need more bookshelves desperately, but hey... I'd rather stack the books from floor to ceiling than not have them.
We’re on the same page (Pun intended!) when it comes to books and bookmarks! There’s just something about getting lost in a good story or discovering new favorite authors that never gets old. And bookmark…oh, the joy of finding new ones to add to our collections.
Normally, I agree, and I hate being this guy, but I had a friend once who spent ungodly amounts of time and money at bookstores and yet somehow managed to be one of the most insufferable people you could meet.
The equivalent today would be an online addict trolling people outside of his bubble.
I'm currently living under intolerable conditions. I've been told that I can't bring new books into the house unless an equal or greater number of older books leave the house.
I manage an airport bookstore, have a lifelong discount for working at another bookstore for 31 years, and regularly shop at the cutest independent bookstore in my town.
As I have gotten older, as with all things, I've learned that books are a doorway to hope, adventure, to another place and time. I wish I knew these things earlier.
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ABSOLUTELY! 😀👍
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Hi Nicki,
I currently have around 15 unread books at home . . .
... and yet today I paid a visit to one of my favorite bookstores.
You can never have too many books ! 😊
💙 📚 💙
(her last recommendation was the Black Sun trilogy, which is the best fantasy I've read since the Broken Earth trilogy, so yeah, she gets me)
have too many books when those you’ll never read again are shelved to create an Intellectual image rather than donating them to libraries and book sales in hopes of gaining other readers.
Walk into a book store seconds before it explodes. 🤔🤨
Yayyy, #books! 📚📚📚📚
The equivalent today would be an online addict trolling people outside of his bubble.
Book stores are the second best