My book collection

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skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
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Awesome collection. I have about 1800-2000 books at home. They are starting to chase me out of the apartment. Some of these i have to disqualify so they arenow not in shelf but in a storagecloset. Have made a database so i can keep an eye on my books and know which one i have and have not.
I like that idea, but have never managed to carry it off. I start listing and end up reading!
 

Autumn Gust

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Sep 20, 2012
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Awesome collection. I have about 1800-2000 books at home. They are starting to chase me out of the apartment. Some of these i have to disqualify so they arenow not in shelf but in a storagecloset. Have made a database so i can keep an eye on my books and know which one i have and have not.
Makes me think of the Dewey Decimal System. :smile2: As a kid, it was so exciting to walk down the rows of books in the library and see them all neatly organized and available for me to read!


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Kurben

The Fool on the Hill
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Makes me think of the Dewey Decimal System. :smile2: As a kid, it was so exciting to walk down the rows of books in the library and see them all neatly organized and available for me to read!


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Dont i know it. When i wrote my thesis a long time ago they didn't had computers so had to look through files like that, many of them, to find the sources i wanted. It is so much more easier now with databases. You find what you want in a seconds, before it could take hours or days.
 

skimom2

Just moseyin' through...
Oct 9, 2013
15,683
92,168
USA
Makes me think of the Dewey Decimal System. :smile2: As a kid, it was so exciting to walk down the rows of books in the library and see them all neatly organized and available for me to read!


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It's STILL exciting--lol. I volunteer in my son's school library, and get lost in the minutae of why book go under certain numbers. The librarian there is trying to get me to go back to school to be a children's librarian :D I love kids & books, so maybe
 

morgan

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Jul 11, 2010
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It's STILL exciting--lol. I volunteer in my son's school library, and get lost in the minutae of why book go under certain numbers. The librarian there is trying to get me to go back to school to be a children's librarian :D I love kids & books, so maybe
I always wanted to be a librarian too! I hope to volunteer at least one day a week sometime in the future.
 

morgan

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Jul 11, 2010
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Nice collection my friend you have alot more books than i ever will lol. Thats what i need to buy next though is a book shelf.
Me too! I've been looking at thrift stores for the last year, but our thrift stores are pretty crappy around here and they want a lot of money for the ones I've seen. Not to mention they were all hideous!! ;-D
 

booklover72

very strange person
Jan 12, 2014
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We used to have over a thousand books, my husband and I. About five years ago, we downsized and got rid of lots of them. Now we have about two hundred. I call them our "core collections"-- he has his favorite books and I have mine but we cheat a little. We have a sixty volume set of The Great Books. They're published by The Encyclopedia Brittanica and contain the complete works of great writers like Homer, Plato, and Shakespeare and the "bestsellers" of many others like Dickens, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It's a good tradeoff… you still have a pretty meaty library at your fingertips but at the same time you don't have all the b ook dust, which we almost always had, seeing as dusting is just about my least favorite activity on earth. :smile2:
200 books wow, I am in heaven:) Homer Plato impressed:)
 

Rrty

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Wow, that is awesome. Question: Are the red books I see in the photos an encyclopedia set? I used to have a Junior set of encyclopedias when I was younger. I don't know what happened to them; I wish I still had them.

I didn't read through the whole thread, but someone mentioned owning "The Great Books." Let me say, that's pretty cool. I love going to the local library and flipping through those. Sometimes I'll read about philosophy, science, etc. I actually read a lot from Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," but this particular copy I think is from a different set of notable collected books, might be called something like Harvard Great Books? It