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Monthly Archives: December 2006

On the differences of Collecting and Accumulating, Part 3

» by Paul December 29th, 2006 at 3:29 pm » Comments (0)

The core of my book collecting is Horror fiction. Though I collect (not to much extent other than to read) science, science fiction, and history I do not search ...more »

On the differences of Collecting and Accumulating, Part 2

» by Paul December 28th, 2006 at 4:19 pm » Comments (0)

In the post prior to this one I commented about accumulating. That practice of just buying any and all books that you come across. Accumulating does not make ...more »

An Interesting Find

» by Paul December 26th, 2006 at 11:24 pm » Comments (0)

When I was in the store today I came across the Library of America edition of Poe's stories. I was going to purchase it because the LoA puts out ...more »

On the differences of Collecting and Accumulating, Part 1

» by Paul December 26th, 2006 at 4:52 pm » Comments (1)

Part 1: Accumulation Book collectors are strange individuals. They will scour the world for that one book they are looking for to complete their collection at the same time they ...more »

On Why You Must Know Your First Editions

» by Paul December 22nd, 2006 at 3:41 pm » Comments (0)

Remember my entry: On the Affects of Book Buying on the Bibliomaniac’s Brain well those books that I ordered came in yesterday. All but the Michio Kaku book on ...more »