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by pip » Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:16 pm
We had to get a custome floor to ceiling bookshelf put in. And we have an overflow bookshelf in the spare bedroom. And then theres the work bookshelf we share. Lot of books.
'Dead tree technology!
Information that , if carefully stored , would last for millennia! And no batteries required.'
Terry Pratchett
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
Information that , if carefully stored , would last for millennia! And no batteries required.'
Terry Pratchett
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
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by Bouncy Castle » Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:16 pm
Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
The rest of us are a bit crap.
The rest of us are a bit crap.
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by pip » Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:19 pm
I like my books both to read and show so i've built a bit of a collection . bit mad but hey .
'Dead tree technology!
Information that , if carefully stored , would last for millennia! And no batteries required.'
Terry Pratchett
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
Information that , if carefully stored , would last for millennia! And no batteries required.'
Terry Pratchett
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
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by Bouncy Castle » Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:24 pm
For the love of god, don't bring matches into the house!
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by pip » Fri Jan 28, 2011 12:27 pm
Both non smokers thankfully.
'Dead tree technology!
Information that , if carefully stored , would last for millennia! And no batteries required.'
Terry Pratchett
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
Information that , if carefully stored , would last for millennia! And no batteries required.'
Terry Pratchett
'There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.'
Ray Bradbury (RIP)
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by deldaisy » Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:03 pm
Oh SO confident.... I had collected for twenty five years.... I had a library... I mean a REAL library... and then two rooms downstairs.... I have seen bookshops with less And I had read them all...... 
Moving house one time.... all in boxes ... waiting for the mover... and we got a flash flood that went through the lower garage the night before where the boxes were....
Moving house one time.... all in boxes ... waiting for the mover... and we got a flash flood that went through the lower garage the night before where the boxes were....
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by Sjoerd3000 » Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:06 pm
Poor Del 
A poster outside one shop urged people to Dig For Victory, as if it were some kind of turnip.
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by Bouncy Castle » Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:27 pm
Bummer.
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by Doughnut Jimmy » Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:59 pm
deldaisy wrote:Oh SO confident.... I had collected for twenty five years.... I had a library... I mean a REAL library... and then two rooms downstairs.... I have seen bookshops with less And I had read them all......
Moving house one time.... all in boxes ... waiting for the mover... and we got a flash flood that went through the lower garage the night before where the boxes were....
Noooooo!
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by deldaisy » Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:03 pm
It gets MUCH worse...
I managed to save what I could save (while the movers were arriving and needing to move stuff).
A year later ..... and I had the remains in a library I set up in a downstairs room (half of under the house was double garage and half was living area.. a granny flat type of thing we didn't LIVE in but used).
I left the EX (do you ever wonder WHY he's the ex?) in charge of the garage sale we were having for a hour or so while I went to make lunch for us and the kids.....
and when I went back down... (I had to walk through the library to get to the garage) and found most of the shelves bare.... and the EX at the sale selling my books for 20 cents a copy. The original Galaxy mags? $2 a bunch..... and people walking out with their arms filled to busting.
........... ....... . . ... . .
my goodness...
I managed to save what I could save (while the movers were arriving and needing to move stuff).
A year later ..... and I had the remains in a library I set up in a downstairs room (half of under the house was double garage and half was living area.. a granny flat type of thing we didn't LIVE in but used).
I left the EX (do you ever wonder WHY he's the ex?) in charge of the garage sale we were having for a hour or so while I went to make lunch for us and the kids.....
and when I went back down... (I had to walk through the library to get to the garage) and found most of the shelves bare.... and the EX at the sale selling my books for 20 cents a copy. The original Galaxy mags? $2 a bunch..... and people walking out with their arms filled to busting.
........... ....... . . ... . .
my goodness...
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by Doughnut Jimmy » Fri Jan 28, 2011 8:36 pm
definitely grounds for divorce that 
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by Tonyblack » Fri Jan 28, 2011 10:01 pm
Just saw THIS on the PJSM website.
Not sure how long it will stay on the "News" page, so here's the text:
Not sure how long it will stay on the "News" page, so here's the text:
PJSM News wrote:January 26th 2011
Snuff
According to the writer of the best selling crime novel ever to have been published in the city of Ankh-Morpork, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.
And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe, but many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.
He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and occasionally out of his mind, but not out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment.
They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.
But not quite all…
Published 13th October 2011
Signed copies available for pre-order from August 2011
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by chris.ph » Sat Jan 29, 2011 8:07 pm
deldaisy wrote:It gets MUCH worse...
I managed to save what I could save (while the movers were arriving and needing to move stuff).
A year later ..... and I had the remains in a library I set up in a downstairs room (half of under the house was double garage and half was living area.. a granny flat type of thing we didn't LIVE in but used).
I left the EX (do you ever wonder WHY he's the ex?) in charge of the garage sale we were having for a hour or so while I went to make lunch for us and the kids.....
and when I went back down... (I had to walk through the library to get to the garage) and found most of the shelves bare.... and the EX at the sale selling my books for 20 cents a copy. The original Galaxy mags? $2 a bunch..... and people walking out with their arms filled to busting.
........... ....... . . ... . .
my goodness...
it would not be ex it would be deceased if somebody did that to my books and i have a few
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