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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 »-
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Recent Posts
- More Small Press Price Point Problems
- Neal Stephenson and The Long Now
- The Dark Towers- King, Browning, and the Childe Roland
- Mainspring by Jay Lake
- Book Delivery
- On How and Why Reading Older Books Gives Me Persepective On New Books
- On How I End Up Going Overboard Reading a New-to-Me Genre
- $75
- The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
- On the Collector and the Speculator
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