How well do you treat your books
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You should have seen the disaster I have had with my Trek book collection in my cellar room. The room was flooded due to heavy rain. The water entered the room in torrents. My books were in cardboard boxes and some of them were wet. I was able to save most of them, though. Only one book total loss, and I reaquired it in the German edition. It was one of the first Titan books.
I'm not quite as far as that.
Mine do sit on the shelves up high. Well out of the reach of little children (more correct, grandchildren). They probably do collect a bit of dust but I stack them laying down not standing up. Fit better and keeps them better.
Even a certain unspeakably vile international intrigue thriller (but marketed as SF), whose title and author I won't mention, a book that I'm only holding onto in order to keep it off the used market, the book that has brought me as close as I ever want to be to wanting to burn (or otherwise destroy) a book, still sits on my shelf, among the general fiction, sorted by author's last name.
Putting them in the press kinda keeps my Trek fandom as part of my private life too if anyone visits.
I never stack laying down, especially the hardbacks. I noticed that the dust cover sometimes get a crease from the inside hardcover if there is too much weight on it from other books stacked on top.
When I was a kid who bought Trek books on allowance, I couldn't buy that many and re-read the ones I had constantly. The ones from middle school, high school, and college are all beaten to hell -- dog-eared, stressed covers, etc. The ones I've acquired since are completely immaculate because they're read once and then stuck on the shelf as decoration. My Kindle books, of course, are in a class of their own..
I try to keep them as good as possible.
Sometimes, when I give someone a book I’ve read, they ask ‘Have you really read this?’
Sometimes, when I give someone a book I’ve read, they ask ‘Have you really read this?’
Do they return the books? That's what I'm afraid of. Lending out a book and never getting it back. So I'm very careful about that.
To be honest I don’t care.
If I’ve read a book and no one else wants it, I put it in a bag, and when the bag is full I take the books to the local charity shop.
That includes the Star Trek books.
That must be a Dan thing, I'm of the same opinion.
I once needed to get rid of the third Worlds of DS9 due to missing "the bucket" after a very heavy night out ten years or so ago.
Haven't had one fall in the bath but had one fall in water in what the Americans call the "bathroom".
Indeed I do agree, albeit a bit late
Indeed I do agree, albeit a bit late
I guess you have been busy as you weren't online as often as before lately. On the other hand, you hardly missed much here on the forum.....
When I had phyiscal books before I lost them all, I took very good care of them. It bugs me when people bend the pages back. Currently all of my books are on my Kindle.
Yeah, I kinda had to deal with some stuff, but I think I'll be more active in the next few months. I did keep up with the 2018 novels thread, so I've heard of the dire situation.
Architects of Infinity is refreshing at the moment. Looking forward to the Cross Cult version of it. Any guess who will be on the cover???? I received AoI from Amazon and it had creases on the cover. I don't like it with books I have ordered in a new condition. It looked like it was already read once.
Architects of Infinity was the biggest suprise for me. I pre-ordered it back in July... July of 2016, that is, and I had totally forgot that I did. I'm only a few chapters in, but I like it so far. For the cover, I'd love Conlon, but I'm not sure if CrossCult does book-only characters on Voyager covers.
I second that. They did it with Choudhoury on TNG once. A crying shame considering what happened to the character later on. Maybe it is better for Conlon to stay off the cover after a fashion.
That's what Post-It flags are for!
Honestly, though, I'm in the middle range of this discussion. I buy most of my books second-hand (who can afford full retail?), so I can't be too much of a stickler about condition, but I do try to keep them in at least as good a state as I obtained them in. It's easier with hardcovers, of course (allowing that I take the dust covers off when reading them); some paperbacks will get cracked spines and split corners if you even look at them sideways.
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