I’ve been sorting out my books since I moved. Trying to arrange them in some sort of order… not alphabetical or anything like that because that would just be far too complicated. At the moment they are arranged sort of by topic and \ or genre and \ or author.
Which I guess sounds complicated enough itself, but it makes absolute sense for me. Also there’s a size issue… Big books have to go on tall shelves, while paperbacks and the like can be stacked double thick and 7 high for space saving measures.
Damn, I should’ve taken a photo.
Anyway, I just found another load of books that I’d thought lost forever, but it turned out the Father had stuffed them into a load of old drawers out in the garage to ‘get them out of the way of his golf clubs.’
Hmmm, yes.
This meant a lot of shuffling and sorting and making space on my already filled bookcases during which time I found that I am the owner of TWO copies of Stephen Fry’s ‘The Stars Tennis Balls’ and TWO copies of Transmet 5: Lonely City.
It sort of says something when you find that you have two copies of the same book. When you have two copies of multiple books it’s probably more of a scream along the lines of ‘STOP BUYING BOOKS BITCH!’.
Anyway, I digress.
If anyone wants the spare copy of either of these let me know. This offer only applies to citizens of Dublin who I can meet in a pub cos I’m too cheap to spend money on things like postage etc.
I’ve not only bought the same book twice (about a year between purchases) I then borrowed it off a friend a couple of months after getting the second copy. Short term memory? What’s that?
Comment by Karl — May 4, 2006 @ 3:31 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever bought a second copy of a book because I forgot I already have it. I have had to buy replacement copies of books because some people are less than diligent when it comes to returning books that they’ve borrowed. Maybe it’s because the book has been misplaced or maybe it’s because they borrowed it to lend to a psycho person they used to go out with, who knows? One must learn equanimity in the face of such difficulties and not plan terrible, bloody retribution. No, never that.
Comment by Kesey — May 4, 2006 @ 9:17 pm
i’m forever doing that with cds. i now have doubles on stina nordenstam, yo la tengo and jellyfish. all up for grabs, apart from Yo La Tengo which Slaps from p45 is taking
Comment by ronan — May 5, 2006 @ 12:07 am