In addition to reading (and re-reading) books for fun, I also re-read books, or look for things in fiction books, for discussions, arguments, blog entries, and so forth. And I loan books to friends, to try to infect them with some of my special loves.
My five (I think) editions of The Skylark of Space (plus electronic editions) contain at least three significantly different texts, that I'm working towards writing about in some detail. That's an exceptional case -- but I hadn't made this plan 10 years ago, and I already had half the editions. In fact it was noting the differences when reading a new edition that started me down this path.
We have the upstairs living room filled with books -- but pretty much all the other rooms in the house each have more than one bookshelf full of books in them, too.
I like ebooks a lot. I've never owned a DRMed ebook, and never will for more than a brief period -- while I strip the DRM from it. I mostly read ebooks from Baen and Project Gutenberg (and have had a lot of unexpected pleasure from things I stumbled onto on Gutenberg -- despite people telling me that electronic catalogs prevent that from happening).
My experience, as early as third grade, was that I can't trust libraries. It's great that they have books for me to read -- but things happen and I lose access to them (in that case, it was being moved to a different school for third grade; I lost access to the Washington School library, and gained access to the Longfellow School library). And re-reading became a habit, partly because there just wasn't enough SF to be able to keep reading if I only read each book once. So, after I'm done being excited about the new books in the new library, and it's time to go back and read an old favorite -- it's not there!!!! Shock horror!!!!
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Date: 2011-08-08 04:46 pm (UTC)My five (I think) editions of The Skylark of Space (plus electronic editions) contain at least three significantly different texts, that I'm working towards writing about in some detail. That's an exceptional case -- but I hadn't made this plan 10 years ago, and I already had half the editions. In fact it was noting the differences when reading a new edition that started me down this path.
We have the upstairs living room filled with books -- but pretty much all the other rooms in the house each have more than one bookshelf full of books in them, too.
I like ebooks a lot. I've never owned a DRMed ebook, and never will for more than a brief period -- while I strip the DRM from it. I mostly read ebooks from Baen and Project Gutenberg (and have had a lot of unexpected pleasure from things I stumbled onto on Gutenberg -- despite people telling me that electronic catalogs prevent that from happening).
My experience, as early as third grade, was that I can't trust libraries. It's great that they have books for me to read -- but things happen and I lose access to them (in that case, it was being moved to a different school for third grade; I lost access to the Washington School library, and gained access to the Longfellow School library). And re-reading became a habit, partly because there just wasn't enough SF to be able to keep reading if I only read each book once. So, after I'm done being excited about the new books in the new library, and it's time to go back and read an old favorite -- it's not there!!!! Shock horror!!!!