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156 items in 3 years? That is obscene. He averaged one purchase per week from amazon over this time period, which basically makes Amazon.com PB's religion.
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If you s/Amazon.com/public library/, that is fairly typical of people who read a lot. There is a LiveJournal community called 50bookchallenge that encourages people to read 50 books a year, keep track of them, and share what they're reading with others. It has 7000+ members. My reading lists for 2003-2006: 2003: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/24851.html 2004: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/60579.html 2005:…
The money isn't my primary problem with buying so many books, though it is a factor...it's the weight of having all those books. When I moved from Austin I sold 26 boxes of books and several bookshelves. I promised myself I would never collect that many books again. I'm moving into an RV this week, and so had to sell all the remaining books (and any that I'd collected since that last move), and I sold 8 boxes of book…
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The money isn't my primary problem with buying so many books, though it is a factor...it's the weight of having all those books. When I moved from Austin I sold 26 boxes of books and several bookshelves. I promised myself I would never collect that many books again. I'm moving into an RV this week, and so had to sell all the remaining books (and any that I'd collected since that last move), and I sold 8 boxes of book…
Maybe he gives them to friends or a local library after he's done?
156 items in 3 years? That is obscene. He averaged one purchase per week from amazon over this time period, which basically makes Amazon.com PB's religion.
I can get through a book in on average - for a 250 page hardback - a week, so this isn't obscene.
156 items in 3 years? That is obscene. He averaged one purchase per week from amazon over this time period, which basically makes Amazon.com PB's religion.
If you s/Amazon.com/public library/, that is fairly typical of people who read a lot. There is a LiveJournal community called 50bookchallenge that encourages people to read 50 books a year, keep track of them, and share what they're reading with others. It has 7000+ members. My reading lists for 2003-2006: 2003: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/24851.html 2004: http://nostrademons.livejournal.com/60579.html 2005:…
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I can get through a book in on average - for a 250 page hardback - a week, so this isn't obscene.
...wow people downvoted the crap out of that comment. He said he has not even read many of the books he has bought. Clearly a lot of those are impulse buys. There is nothing wrong with that...we all make impulse purchases...I was just saying that is a lot of impulse purchases.
"a lot of those are impulse buys. There is nothing wrong with that"
three minutes later,
"That is what makes it obscene...they are impulse buys..."
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...wow people downvoted the crap out of that comment. He said he has not even read many of the books he has bought. Clearly a lot of those are impulse buys. There is nothing wrong with that...we all make impulse purchases...I was just saying that is a lot of impulse purchases.
Make your mind up. "a lot of those are impulse buys. There is nothing wrong with that" three minutes later, "That is what makes it obscene...they are impulse buys..."
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The money isn't my primary problem with buying so many books, though it is a factor...it's the weight of having all those books. When I moved from Austin I sold 26 boxes of books and several bookshelves. I promised myself I would never collect that many books again. I'm moving into an RV this week, and so had to sell all the remaining books (and any that I'd collected since that last move), and I sold 8 boxes of book…
Maybe he gives them to friends or a local library after he's done?
If I'd thought to donate them immediately after reading them (as though I were simply returning checked out books), it would have worked better. But I never trained myself to think that way about books I bought. But, the library here in Mountain View is extremely good; it was very rare that I wanted a book that they didn't have, though sometimes I had to wait a week or two for a copy to show up.
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The money isn't my primary problem with buying so many books, though it is a factor...it's the weight of having all those books. When I moved from Austin I sold 26 boxes of books and several bookshelves. I promised myself I would never collect that many books again. I'm moving into an RV this week, and so had to sell all the remaining books (and any that I'd collected since that last move), and I sold 8 boxes of book…
Tell me about it:-( I've shipped mine across the Atlantic several times, and it's not cheap. I think when e-books hit the sweet spot for even technical things, I'll probably get one and sell off the real books, even though it would hurt to do that, as I really love books.
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Maybe he gives them to friends or a local library after he's done?
You can return any new book bought on Amazon within 30 days, as long as you pay return postage, so it is, in a sense, a library.