poster Lagopus, on another thread:
<<When my house burns down, as well as rescuing my saxophone and a guitar or two I'll save ....>>
I thought was a great theme for a thread. the rest of you will prove me right or wrong.
I think you have to play the game of the thread. In reality any books would be way down my list of what to save.
I forgot my PhD thesis, but I'd let it burn, it's shit and I've never opened it since finishing the corrections.
I have an ancient copy of Les Miserables that is very fragile. If I had time, I'd grab that.
I thought about my dissertation (and master's thesis), but heck, let 'em burn. They're part of a past that's so distant it's lost in the fog of time.
<<I think you have to play the game of the thread.>>
thank you! my small effort was to get people to say which books they own they would most miss....
though of course people are free to say, as I will, that I'd grab my wife and run for the hills.
or down the stairs, actually.
I'd forgotten my PhD thesis. It should have been burnt years ago. I'm certainly not wasting any time over it - I'm at one with AdonisBlue there.
I'm still fond of my Dissertation as basically I discovered something new.
While books can be replaced I'd rescue my signed books (Pratchett, Banks, Moorecock, Moore/Gibson).
I'd be more concerned about the artwork tbh.
I discovered something new.
That you'd rather have a job?
Probably just the signed picture of Art Garfunkel.
I have just hired a van and rescued my books, ok, library, from my burned down marriage. Along with a load of other stuff I left behind when I quit, ok, fled; but, mainly, the books. Three generations of book buyers/collectors in my family.
I think the prize is the 1st Ed. Child's Garden of Verses, followed by an early, 2-volume edition Paradise Lost.
Tomorrow I drive the final leg of a 1600-mile round trip to the south of France (overnighting at Reims). I'm very tired but so pleased to be able to do this after all the travel restrictions over the past 14 months.
Also liberated some bookcases!
The question begged here is what is the best way to unload a mixed collection of books. Value not that much, but the more there are, the bigger the need to sell them properly.
Frank Key's 'Sidney the Bat is awarded the Order of Lenin'
Unbalanced apostrophes
<Ugh>
They're balanced, but it makes little sense as is.
Also reveals clandestine editing ability.
#46 I tried selling off a load on Amazon, which on the face of it is easy enough to do but it is a fiddlearse process sorting out the packing, shipping, tracking etc so probably really only worth doing if it is a book of value. I shifted a few at the local flea market but I get really pissed off with people haggling. These days I mostly unload them onto mini libraries, of which here are quite a few locally, and the second hand book shop in town will take the remainder on and whilst they would give me money for them, I get them to credit friend T's account (she is 12).
Interesting. I'm minded to punt the whole lot to a dealer for, like, whatever.