Hey, its Dave from http://www.gimmethatremote.com/ . Glad you made it out of the movie cave.

Okay, you get a whole new category, splitting your books between hard and soft cover.

Tempest, that’s why I get the library to store my books for me. Saves energy!

I’ve only spent a day in Berlin but I loved it and will be back someday. Ironically the Brandenburg Gate was under construction then (like the first time I was in Paris, the Louvre was closed for repairs – name a historic place or monument and odds are, I’ve seen it under construction).

Kaitlin, awesome, another bad girl and proud of it! Reading and food (especially chocolate) just seem to go together, don’t they?

I´m in Berlin, which I seriously think is one of the best places to live in the world. If only there were more (and cheaper!) English books around!

I’m a dogearing, food-eating, spine-breaking, bad, bad girl. he-he. I can’t stand people who are so anal about their books that you can’t even tell the books been read before. My books are well-loved and I’m perfectly content with that.

What bugs me is letting someone borrow a book and either not getting it back or having some sort of mysterious gooey substance gluing the pages together. Had to stop letting a friend read my books because that’s what happened with each & every book. Drove me mad!

I like to pretend I have no quirks when it comes to books, but as an old ex-hockey player everything comes down to superstition, or what I like to call plain old pattern. All my non-fiction are hardback, all my fiction trade. I finish three books a month, the non-fiction gets started at the beginning and finished at the end of the month. Somewhere in the first week I open a short trade paper fiction and read it over two days. A week later I open a classic novel, I’m reading George Elliot right now, and that gets carried around for the next twenty days. Non-fiction gets read at my writing table with a highlighter in one hand, fiction gets read on the subway, in movie theaters, laundry rooms, wherever I have a moment. I’ll read any classic novel, but for modern I read mostly only female authors, Amelie Nothomb, Marguerite Duras, Ann Brashares, Kelly Armstrong, Emma Donoghue, Kristen den Hartog, give me a good story, a quick read, a little quirkiness, and a strong female lead and I’m a happy guy.

The Folio Society is a book club for people who like the books as objects in their own right, not just for the words inside (although they take care to pick good books as well). They are not cheap, but if you’re a bibliophile the books are worth it — and there are always special offers for members. In fact there’s a thriving discussion going on in the Folio Society group at LibraryThing as to how to extract the best “please rejoin!” special offer out of them. :->

Hee. I should probably take a photo of my Folio Society bookcase and put it on my website or LiveJournal.

Here’s the link to their website, if anyone else wants to look at the books. I will note that if anyone is smitten by book lust, the best strategy for joining is to pick the four cheapest books you would like, and buy the others later — there are often better prices to be had once you’re a member. And there’s usually loads of them cheap on eBay (I note that Rebecca is up for grabs today).
http://www.foliosoc.co.uk/default.php

Oh damn, I’ve just seen a book I wanted for research purposes in the eBay listings. Do I really want it in a FS edition rather than checking the local second-hand shop?

Materials scientist by day? How cool is that!!

I had never heard of the Folio Society before so I Google’d them. Wow, just wow. I usually donate my books but if they looked like that…