[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/12/2002 4:03:55 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > even managed to read it in the same month I bought it, which is more
> impressive > when one considers that I have two hundred unread books that
> have been bought > over the last couple of years.
>
> I have 10,000 unread books. But then again I'm a bookseller.
We have over 1000 books that I haven't read yet, and I'm *not* a
bookseller.
I've been burned too many times with things going out of print, so if I
think I might want to own it sometime in the next 5 years, I buy it when
I have the chance.
Plus there are books that Dan has bought and read, and I intend to read
sometime, but just haven't gotten to yet.
(Then there's the situation where I buy one book by a particular author
or in a particular series, then buy a bunch more, recommend the inital
book to Dan, and he goes on to read the others ahead of me. Right now
I'm reading an Elizabeth Moon book I bought for myself more than for
him, but that he beat me to. He's reading a Ken MacLeod book; the first
Ken MacLeod book we got was one I read because it was nominated for the
Hugo, and I went on to list it as my first choice, but he's the one
actually reading them now.)
Julia
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