The most you would spend on a book?

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  1. SmoothieX

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    I've bought textbooks that push $200. Other than that, books are generally obsolete.
     
  2. Spot's Meow

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    Besides textbooks, the most I've paid for a book was pre-ordering the new Harry Potter books as they came out. I can't remember how much that was, around $20 I'm assuming. Normally I wouldn't even pay that much; on my Kindle, I completely ignore anything over $9.99, and even that is too high and something I would only pay if I REALLY wanted the book. But honestly, there hasn't been anything I've really wanted that's been published recently. And by recently I mean the last 60 years. :lol: I have a large collection of Agatha Christie novels that I am still working my way through.
     
  3. SmoothieX

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    ^I swore up and down you would never get me to watch one of those movies.

    But after I got my mom a puppy and she named him Dobby, I was curious about his namesake, so we watched a few of the earlier movies. I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked them.
     
  4. J.T.B.

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    They are? What about the millions of volumes' worth of information that is available nowhere else?



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  5. Data Holmes

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    THe most I would spend on a book, depends on how much I could afford...My affinity for antiques and other bits would cause me to bite on any offer I could afford on first editions and such. Alas, I do not possess the funds to embark on such a purchasing endeavor.
     
  6. PKTrekGirl

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    I have a small collection of rare first editions...including a collection of books that were written in the mid to late 1920's about Rudolph Valentino (and one book written BY Rudolph Valentino). Most of these books were over $100 and I think one was around $200.

    Unless it's a collectors item like that, I don't spend tons on books anymore - I buy mostly paperback novels (although I did buy one large coffeetable sized book last year about Pearl Jam - that book was about $35).

    I have enough books now to keep me reading for the rest of my life, so I'm not inclined to buy books unless I really want them.
     
  7. Theodore Jay Miller

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    I spent $40 on The Star-Stealers, The Complete Tales of the Interstellar Patrol, by Edmond Hamilton. And I spent $80 on a birthday present for my brother-in-law: a 1000-page hardcover omnibus of Wolverine comics.
     
  8. Mary Ann

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    I spent £30-£40 on a 19th century book on the outlying villages of our city. It was a gift for my husband. I understand paying a fair price for first edition and other rare books, but I'm loathe to spend so much money on a book that I'd be afraid to touch it. I have an 1841 edition of Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for which I paid just £25 as it's not in great condition. This means that I feel comfortable looking through the book and have even tried a few of the cake recipes (very rich, but delicious).
     
  9. Tora Ziyal

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    Keep watching. Dobby's shining moment is in the last movie.
     
  10. Kirkman1987

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    The most I've spent was around $85 for the new annotated Sherlock Holmes a few years back. In fairness though, it was three volumes.

    Generally though, I wouldn't spend more than 10-15 dollars.
     
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    How much I would spend on a book would depend on the book and how much disposable income I had. If I were rich, I would buy lots of old, expensive books.

    The most I've actually spent on a single book is $150 for a hardcover collection of Richard Matheson's Night Stalker scripts (including the third unproduced movie). It is also numbered and signed, but I didn't know that when I bought it.
     
  13. stj

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    About $115 for G.E.M. de Ste. Croix's Class Struggle in the Ancient World. And about $102 for the three volumes of Jonathan Israel's history of the Enlightenment. Worth every penny, both of them.
     
  14. Holdfast

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    I did briefly think about getting Jung's Red Book(currently over £100 on Amazon UK), then decided it would be more consistent with its principles to obtain the knowledge through the collective unconscious instead...
     
  15. Mary Ann

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    The trouble with the collective unconscious, though, is that it has a tendency to be vacuous at times.
     
  16. Sephiroth

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    spent around $200 on a book of Amano prints and I have tracked down a deck of Tarot cards with an art book illustrated by Amano that will run me about $90
     
  17. Emher

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    Well, turns out I didn't have to pay toll on the book. So my answer is: 132 USD. The most I have ever spent and is likely to spend ever again on a book. But seeing as it was the "Star Trek Deep Space Nine Companion", with lots of awesome info...I'm okay with that :D
     
  18. Holdfast

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    Should have been "I can live with it", for the full Sisko effect... :p
     
  19. Emher

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    True enough :lol:
     
  20. PlainSimpleJoel

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    ^ Enjoy the book. I got the book years ago. It's been a while since I looked at it, but it's always handy when what to know a certain information regarding an episode.

    For me it was probably around $50, as I brought a hardcover novel over 10 years now. Not sure where it is now, as with the amount of moving I've done in that time.