A Point of View: Is there still any point collecting books?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I love my books, I have had a life time of fighting with parents and partners to keep them, but I will not part with them.
Books are thoughts made flesh, albeit paper flesh.
LenHazell53
Level 9
Apr 4, 2019
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I like it because the books say something about me and what I value. It's a bit like T-shirts with messages on them, I think.
I'm always conscious that I might suffer from tsundoku if I'm not careful.
brentan
Level 8
Apr 4, 2019
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When people look at my shelves of books, they can tell a lot about who I am. I have a whole shelf of books by and about Laura Ingalls Wilder (a childhood love). I have two shelves of books about JFK and RFK, my childhood heroes, I have a shelf of picture books from when I did library story times, etc. Many of those books I will probably never read again, but I find it comforting to look over and see the on the shelves. They are a part of me.
Yes. The point is to have books because books are great. And books look a lot nicer on a shelf rather than showing people your vast collection of nothing.
Charles1971
Level 7
Apr 4, 2019
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Depends what you collect them for. I read all the time - mostly onscreen these days - but I also have several large collections of books some of which I have read and some of which are not very readable, but then I used to have an antiquarian and second-hand bookshop.
CeliaVL
Level 7
Apr 4, 2019
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It depends on why you chose to collect them. If you read them and write notes and comments on the side of a page, or highlight with a marker stuff that caught your attention, how can you not want to keep it? It's very interesting to re-visit a book you read years before and find out those comments reflect who/what you were at the time and then you get a sense of how much ( or not for that matter ) have you changed. Books are a personal choice on how we handle them over time. Yes, I believe there is still a point on collecting them.
IamNobody
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Apr 4, 2019
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