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i decided not to buy my summer school books (for the most part), so i spent the money on books of another stripe instead.
i really wanted a copy of Poppet's memoir but swore i wouldn't spend more than $100 for it (i'd only ever seen one online for $250).
well, i didn't spend $100. it's a sickness, i know. especially when you can read the blasted thing completely scanned online. but night after night of curling up with it before bed has habituated me to holding the bloody thing and i had to have one. and now i do.
i also bought gambone's Hanty biography (innerliberry loan wants their copy back and i have run out of renewal options). i also fear i will have to return hyndman's history of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry by the end of the month and am considering getting a copy of that as well, though it runs high at $30 (i may just make some photocopies of the good stuff instead).
Steers' book, too, is even pricey at $20 ~ especially when i managed to find a beat up old copy of Weichmann's trash for about $6.
~ she says having spent, by this time, triple digits on the other above-listed items and Hanty's letterbooks (which i eagerly await from pennsylvania). oh yeah, and the linonia address (fer shame, i know, i was weak!!!).
now, i could beat myself up for spending obscene amounts of money on completely ridiculous books; money that could have gone toward charity or some other sort of (at the very least) self-improvement. i'm a bad person in this regard and i admit books are a huge vice for me. i have easily acquired fifty books of considerable heft and cost since i arrived in minnesota. for my latest project/mania alone i can count 8 off the top of my head (i'm prolly forgetting a few). and quite a few of the books in question have been antiquities of high dollar. i don't even want to think about the total price tag. i prolly could have fed a small country for what i've spent on really obscure books and ephemera in the last two years.
surely some of you on my flist suffer from this debility as well? tell me i am not alone.
: o p
i decided not to buy my summer school books (for the most part), so i spent the money on books of another stripe instead.
i really wanted a copy of Poppet's memoir but swore i wouldn't spend more than $100 for it (i'd only ever seen one online for $250).
well, i didn't spend $100. it's a sickness, i know. especially when you can read the blasted thing completely scanned online. but night after night of curling up with it before bed has habituated me to holding the bloody thing and i had to have one. and now i do.
i also bought gambone's Hanty biography (innerliberry loan wants their copy back and i have run out of renewal options). i also fear i will have to return hyndman's history of the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry by the end of the month and am considering getting a copy of that as well, though it runs high at $30 (i may just make some photocopies of the good stuff instead).
Steers' book, too, is even pricey at $20 ~ especially when i managed to find a beat up old copy of Weichmann's trash for about $6.
~ she says having spent, by this time, triple digits on the other above-listed items and Hanty's letterbooks (which i eagerly await from pennsylvania). oh yeah, and the linonia address (fer shame, i know, i was weak!!!).
now, i could beat myself up for spending obscene amounts of money on completely ridiculous books; money that could have gone toward charity or some other sort of (at the very least) self-improvement. i'm a bad person in this regard and i admit books are a huge vice for me. i have easily acquired fifty books of considerable heft and cost since i arrived in minnesota. for my latest project/mania alone i can count 8 off the top of my head (i'm prolly forgetting a few). and quite a few of the books in question have been antiquities of high dollar. i don't even want to think about the total price tag. i prolly could have fed a small country for what i've spent on really obscure books and ephemera in the last two years.
surely some of you on my flist suffer from this debility as well? tell me i am not alone.
: o p
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Think of them as investments. You are diversifying your portfolio by having antiques that will appreciate in value over the years.
Why, this is actually a SMART investment for the future! Continue on!
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my other one being: hey, i have no debt (school notwithstanding), i pay my rent, i pay my bills, i keep my dogs healthy and in kibble, my car runs well, and i try to buy drinks, movie tickets, and lunches, for my friends when i can.
so if it's not a financial burden, it seems all's fair in love and books.
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But I sort of think of it as, I don't do drugs or alcohol or cigarettes, so this is what I spend my free money on.
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but yes, i guess there are worse things we could do.
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to date i think the most i've ever spent on a book has been about $170 (crazy!). i couldn't imagine spending that much now, but i was sort of crazy in money at the time.
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And I /am/ guilty of buying her a first-edition of William Winter's collected poems signed by his wife and then crying with joy when I held it in the mailroom.
and...
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ah, the joys ~ the ineffable joys!
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(Sorry, I had another long, terrible battle with the scanner today. It's one of those people that instead of fighting back, just stares at you and doesn't say anything until you want to beat it's head in. I'll break it eventually, and /then/ I'll scan the Trial Versions article...)
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hmmmm....
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eh. There are plenty of worse things...
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ooo ice cream!