[30 days of books] more is more
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ironymaidenwell, Norwescon has blown up my attempt at schedule...
11. Do you own multiple copies of any book? What are they? Why do you have multiple copies?
yes.
off the top of my head: the D&D 4e Player's Handbook, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.*
the PHB started out as an accidental spare, but has stayed because it's most convenient for C and i to each have a copy to refer to. (we really need to pick up another Exalted 2e.) as i think about it, usually we have a pair of whatever the current D&D is and then ditch one when we move up to the next edition. (although i think we still have both 2e and the revised 2e with the black cover because that was my first really my very own D&D book and it was kind of a big deal to me.)
we have three copies of The Hobbit. one is the portable paperback, one is the gold-covered 50th anniversary edition, and one was a gift from C's brother. we should probably ditch one, but we have the practical one, the pretty one, and the sentimental one.
for LotR, we have the portable paperbacks and the hardcover boxed set with the...is it Alan Lee or John Howe illustrations? (i would fail a Lee vs Howe quiz. right now, C is twitching and he doesn't know why.) anyway, a really lovely boxed hardcover set and a set of beater paperbacks. gifts from our respective families from childhood. the paperbacks are mine and i was willing to let them go at one point, but really it's handy to have the nice ones *and* the small ones.
we have three complete works: one that i've had since i was ten or twelve that has a broken spine and is full of little paper markers, the living room Riverside, and the bedroom Riverside. my old one is all sentimental value. one of the Riversides was C's textbook and has been marked up a bit. there's a separate living room and bedroom Riverside because you always want one handy (okay, if you are us you always want one handy) and the damn things are heavy. (the need for a bedroom Shakespeare is one of the awesome things about my marriage.)
otherwise, we weeded out duplicates relatively early on - as verified by more than one bookish couple, a major declaration of commitment.
*technically, there are more, since certain books we loan out don't return. i have grown to accept that i need to buy Sewer, Gas, Electric every few years - i think we're on our third or fourth now.
30 questions
11. Do you own multiple copies of any book? What are they? Why do you have multiple copies?
yes.
off the top of my head: the D&D 4e Player's Handbook, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare.*
the PHB started out as an accidental spare, but has stayed because it's most convenient for C and i to each have a copy to refer to. (we really need to pick up another Exalted 2e.) as i think about it, usually we have a pair of whatever the current D&D is and then ditch one when we move up to the next edition. (although i think we still have both 2e and the revised 2e with the black cover because that was my first really my very own D&D book and it was kind of a big deal to me.)
we have three copies of The Hobbit. one is the portable paperback, one is the gold-covered 50th anniversary edition, and one was a gift from C's brother. we should probably ditch one, but we have the practical one, the pretty one, and the sentimental one.
for LotR, we have the portable paperbacks and the hardcover boxed set with the...is it Alan Lee or John Howe illustrations? (i would fail a Lee vs Howe quiz. right now, C is twitching and he doesn't know why.) anyway, a really lovely boxed hardcover set and a set of beater paperbacks. gifts from our respective families from childhood. the paperbacks are mine and i was willing to let them go at one point, but really it's handy to have the nice ones *and* the small ones.
we have three complete works: one that i've had since i was ten or twelve that has a broken spine and is full of little paper markers, the living room Riverside, and the bedroom Riverside. my old one is all sentimental value. one of the Riversides was C's textbook and has been marked up a bit. there's a separate living room and bedroom Riverside because you always want one handy (okay, if you are us you always want one handy) and the damn things are heavy. (the need for a bedroom Shakespeare is one of the awesome things about my marriage.)
otherwise, we weeded out duplicates relatively early on - as verified by more than one bookish couple, a major declaration of commitment.
*technically, there are more, since certain books we loan out don't return. i have grown to accept that i need to buy Sewer, Gas, Electric every few years - i think we're on our third or fourth now.
30 questions
