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- From: brad@optilink.COM (Brad Yearwood)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Reading as an addiction (Was: 92 in rabreview)
- Message-ID: <13766@optilink.COM>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 06:42:44 GMT
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- In article <1hvt3fINN2os@FUNCTOR.SYSTEMSZ.CS.YALE.EDU>, loosemore-sandra@cs.yale.edu (Sandra Loosemore) writes:
- > ecl@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Evelyn C. Leeper) writes:
- >
- > Speaking of which, another test of biblioholism is: Do you spend more
- > time planning what books to take on a trip than what clothes?
- >
- > Not to mention: do you have to think about what *not* to take with so
- > you'll have enough room for all the books you'll be coming back with?
- > Or, do you spend more time planning what bookstores you'll visit than
- > on any other aspect of travel planning? Or extend business trips by
- > two or three days so you'll have time to visit all the local
- > bookstores?
- >
-
- Do/have you:
-
- Been pulled aside for a search in a foreign airport, probably because the
- large briefcase (full of books) is making you walk funny like maybe you're
- carrying a chunk of plutonium or a couple of anti-tank rounds? Guilty.
-
- Or end up straining your arms and shoulders, and busting seams on your
- carry-on bags by unexpectedly encountering a surprisingly good used
- bookstore _inside_ an airport (Milwaukee)? Guilty.
-
- Arrive in a new city, find a specialty used bookstore in the phonebook, call
- and ask about a specific title, and have them send it, without seeing either
- the book or the store? Guilty.
-
- While travelling, go into a bookstore, find a bunch of stuff, take it to the
- counter, pay for it, and leave with only a receipt, because you had them ship
- the books home? Guilty.
-
- While travelling, buy too many used books, then stick a friend in that city
- with the task of packing and shipping them? Guilty.
-
- Exercise elaborate strategies, like having a larger carry-on bag which on the
- way out contains only your usual smaller bag, in case you need the larger
- bag to haul books on the way back? Guilty.
-
- Keep books concurrently in more than one city? Guilty.
-
- Had a person comment "your place looks like the aftermath of an explosion in
- a library, with laundry added"? Guilty.
-
- Buy $xxx worth of bookshelves, fill them, and find that the place still looks
- like the aftermath of an explosion in a library, with laundry added. Guilty.
-
- Put your bookshelves on the lower floor of the unit, because you're stuck
- between two seismically active faults, and are not very confident in the
- design floor loading for the upper floor. Guilty.
-
- Books don't affect my life - books _are_ my life.
-
- Brad Yearwood brad@optilink.com {uunet, pyramid}!optilink!brad
- Petaluma, CA
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