I am currently moving through my overstocked nightstand. I have noticed an overall trend about these specific books; I am about half-way to almost finished with all of them. How does this happen? I think I have figured that out.
After reading this I noticed it was not-ready-for-primetime. So I edited it a bit. It reads [...]
Posts under ‘Book Buying’
On How My Nightstand Gets Crowded In Two Easy Steps
More Small Press Price Point Problems
Back on April 29th I showed what $75 could buy you from the secondary market. I was discussing the price point of limited editions in the specialty press and how, for certain publishers, they have gotten out of hand.
I could look around and find some examples from a number of publishers. Right now there is [...]
On How I End Up Going Overboard Reading a New-to-Me Genre
SF, steampunk, horror, fantasy, and all the hybrids and crossovers of these genres interest me at many points in time. Overall, horror has been a genre that I have read since as long as I can remember. SF, maybe as much, though my early SF was related to tie-ins to games like Battletech and movies [...]
$75
What can I get for $75 that is well worth the money and is a solid buy. I will list a few things and I will avoid the small press since there are plenty of good buys from established presses like Earthling Publications and Bloodletting Press to name a couple.
Using Biblio.com, I have come up [...]
On the Collector and the Speculator
The Differences between the Collector and the Speculator with regards to intrinsic and monetary value.
A recent post on a message board I browse has given me this topic to explore. An interesting topic to say the least. The implication that buying books as an investment is something that collectors do and only do [...]
