Well here it is, I\'ll put a list up when I get home but a place for everyone to get started.

ooff. I dont think I can do it. The books I buy I keep. maybe some paperbacks. This is like someone saying, "you\'ve had your dog for a year now and already played with it - now trade it with me for this cat. I always wanted a dog."

I\'ll try, but it aint gonna be a long list.

great idea!!  now to just figure out which books are mine and which books are borrowed.

I used to save my books as well.  Then I moved a couple times.  I had an epiphany while lugging my 3rd box of books up a flight of stairs = THIS SUCKS!!

Yea, I\'ve had that, but I check books out of the library, so its rare that I buy them. I have also read a couple of the classics online. My collection is small, but its stuff I\'d find hard to part with.

examples:
Egyptian book of the dead with word over word english/hieroglyphs
Malius Malifactrum
Vitalogy full 1920\'s version (think of pearl jam)
The book of Enoch from the 1913 greek translations (all 9 in 1 volume)
Full Dark Tower series
1892  printing of Alice in wonderland (2nd edition to include the illustrations)
Myths of Ancient Babelon

"I\'ll sell you my property, but only if you can hide this shelf of books in your cave for me"
was spoken by....

Glad to see there are others who won\'t throw out books. Until last year, when I had to do a bit of a cull, I had NEVER thrown out a book since about the age of seven. Still have all my Chronicles of Narnia and the Earthsea trilogy though they are pretty battered now. These days, my wife doesn\'t know what to complain about most - my CDR or book collection.

Good Lord!  I\'m not talking about books like this.  I\'m talking about trading, paperback pulp, stuff you read on a whim.

I\'ve got a 1950\'s first edition about Igor Sikorski that I would never loan out.  And I\'ll probably ask for my copy of A People\'s History back from Spacey when he\'s done with it.

see thats the kind I buy. The rest I check out of the library, or if its so rare that I can\'t find it anywhere I\'ll buy - which is how I ended up with my own copy of enoch. Yale rare books had it, but you can\'t check them out, let alone go in the same bullet-proof glass inner building with the manusripts. People have given me a ton of paperback that I\'ll let out, but mine is a small collection.

Would LOVE to waste a lifetime reading in there. The only thing more impressive than the titles in the collection is that most of them are first editions and autographed.

i\'d suggest people read The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.  if anyone really wants to read this, let me know and i\'ll buy you a copy.

In this book don Miguel reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offers a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The Four Agreements has the potential to help you move your attention from what the world thinks you "should" do or be to what you know is right for you, reclaim scattered personal energy and power, and open up to a deeper intimacy in personal relationships. According to don Miguel Ruiz, everything we do is based on agreements we have made ? agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is not such a problem, but we have many agreements that come from fear, deplete our energy, and diminish our self-worth.

...and mama thought the star wars thread was a geekfest. good lord - 2 book threads?!

:sigh:

dorks.