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For hundreds of years, the sign of a civilised person has been a house overflowing with books. And now we have people who boast that the primary virtue of their ebook reader is that they are able to empty their house of them.
Yes, it is! It was my Christmas present from my mother in 1995, and it didn’t take me long to read (while recovering from a bad cold in Brooklyn, if memory serves). Much more recently, I acquired a very cheap (but some people tell me, still too expensive) copy of his subsequent masterpiece, Celsius 7/7.
I continue to wrestle with my bookshelves: what you can see there is A-H, but by the time we get to the letter S, in another room, I run out of space, and it’s all a bit of a mess.
For hundreds of years, the sign of a civilised person has been a house overflowing with books. And now we have people who boast that the primary virtue of their ebook reader is that they are able to empty their house of them.
↓ Quote | Posted 25 October, 2012, 2:46 pmLast time I saw a copy of The New Class it was in a JD Wetherspoons in Edinburgh (the Standing Order if anyone’s curious). I wish I’d borrowed it now.
↓ Quote | Posted 26 October, 2012, 8:43 amHappy to lend it to you by post, if you can send me an address!
↓ Quote | Posted 26 October, 2012, 9:32 amI think I would get tired of seeing Tony Blair’s face staring out at me from the spine of that bio.
↓ Quote | Posted 27 October, 2012, 12:01 amYes: he’s been moved to a different shelf, for just that reason. Well, not so much “tired of” as “annoyed with”.
↓ Quote | Posted 27 October, 2012, 8:53 amDespite what ejh says, you might find this useful;
http://tinyurl.com/dxtdzco
and indeed this, though it might be more relevant to the Bob Hargrave thread;
http://tinyurl.com/dxtdzco
↓ Quote | Posted 31 October, 2012, 3:34 pmoops…first link should have been;
http://angryarab.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/e-books.html
↓ Quote | Posted 31 October, 2012, 3:35 pmIs that Michael Gove’s biography of Portillo I see lurking on the bottom shelf?
For some reason, organised personal bookshelf collections always impress me.
↓ Quote | Posted 9 January, 2013, 9:11 pmYes, it is! It was my Christmas present from my mother in 1995, and it didn’t take me long to read (while recovering from a bad cold in Brooklyn, if memory serves). Much more recently, I acquired a very cheap (but some people tell me, still too expensive) copy of his subsequent masterpiece, Celsius 7/7.
I continue to wrestle with my bookshelves: what you can see there is A-H, but by the time we get to the letter S, in another room, I run out of space, and it’s all a bit of a mess.
↓ Quote | Posted 10 January, 2013, 12:44 pm