How do you value books?
Aug. 8th, 2011 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drewanSo as to not pollute my friend's recent post about his large collection of books, I've decided to ask these questions in my own journal.
What does having a large collection of books mean to you? How particular are you about what books you add to your collection?
I've never had a collection as large as my friends (3-4 rooms worth of books). Between Joe and I, we have somewhere around 6-10 bookshelves worth of books. Are collection is largely science fiction, along with childhood, college, GLBT, and general interest books. When we moved 5 years ago, we decided to not unpack most of our books. We have three bookshelves full of books in our living room and a few rows of books in our bedroom bookshelves.
For the last couple of years I've been moving to buying digital books, mostly via Amazon Kindle. I really find that I have no attachment to the physical book. It's the story that I care about. I really like having access to the book I'm currently reading via my iPhone or iPad when ever I'm in the mood to read for a while. I don't have to worry about the book getting beat up, because the iPhone and iPad are somewhat studier than paper. Granted, the devices are more expensive, but I don't have to worry about cracking the spine of my iPad.
For a large number of my books, I would jump at the chance to swap my physical books for digital books.
Of course, when the digital apocalypse comes, I'm going to regret that last statement.
What does having a large collection of books mean to you? How particular are you about what books you add to your collection?
I've never had a collection as large as my friends (3-4 rooms worth of books). Between Joe and I, we have somewhere around 6-10 bookshelves worth of books. Are collection is largely science fiction, along with childhood, college, GLBT, and general interest books. When we moved 5 years ago, we decided to not unpack most of our books. We have three bookshelves full of books in our living room and a few rows of books in our bedroom bookshelves.
For the last couple of years I've been moving to buying digital books, mostly via Amazon Kindle. I really find that I have no attachment to the physical book. It's the story that I care about. I really like having access to the book I'm currently reading via my iPhone or iPad when ever I'm in the mood to read for a while. I don't have to worry about the book getting beat up, because the iPhone and iPad are somewhat studier than paper. Granted, the devices are more expensive, but I don't have to worry about cracking the spine of my iPad.
For a large number of my books, I would jump at the chance to swap my physical books for digital books.
Of course, when the digital apocalypse comes, I'm going to regret that last statement.
