(11-20-2010, 10:41 PM)ZatarRufus Wrote: When I had my dedicated library room [...]Oooh, nice! That's what I plan to have myself one day, although I'm not sure if we will ever have a room to spare for that - maybe when the kids have moved out.
Somehow I cannot bring it over myself to sell any of the books I've read, even if it was a bad one. I've like to go into my library room when I'm old to see what I've read during my life and what has formed my character and made me the man I then will be, and I also like to look up details from a book if something in life caused me to remember it (which happens quite frequently). Strangely, I only think so about books, not movies. That's also the reason why I don't like to borrow books - if I'll read a book, I like to have it in my library afterwards! I don't think I'll ever buy an ebook either, for similar reasons.
Contrast that to my wife, who sells each book she has read immediately. She owns about 5 books total...
-Kylearan
Hi,
(11-18-2010, 04:19 PM)ZatarRufus Wrote: How many books do you own?
While writing my post about dedicated library rooms, I realized how old-fashioned I probably am.
Somehow it seemed obvious to me you meant traditional books on paper sitting in a bookshelf, gathering dust and losing color. Re-reading your post though, electronic books are covered by your questions too, although from the responses for far about packing books in boxes and such, it looks like I'm not the only old-fashioned book reader around. 
I do not own a single e-book, and don't like reading books in an electronic format (even though I'm a computer scientist...). So, as a tangential question, I'd like to ask who buys e-books regularly, and who still prefers to read the majority of his/her books on paper?
-Kylearan
There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." - John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider