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Willow  
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 More options May 16, 12:19 pm
Newsgroups: rec.arts.mystery
From: Willow <panga...@telus.net>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 19:19:55 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 12:19 pm
Subject: Oh My Goodness...
I spotted this ad in Craigslist:

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/bks/681115544.html

30 years come to an end...

Willow


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Annie C  
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 More options May 16, 12:38 pm
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From: "Annie C" <chern...@nevermindspring.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 21:38:42 -0500
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 12:38 pm
Subject: Re: Oh My Goodness...

"Willow" <panga...@telus.net> wrote in message

news:a476fa87-b562-45ca-a8ab-014787af42ad@q24g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
|I spotted this ad in Craigslist:
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| http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/bks/681115544.html
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| 30 years come to an end...
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| Willow
|

Oh, how we'd love to browse through those stacks...

That's an enormous collection. Wonder how many years ago the owner ran out
of shelf space? :-)

Annie


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aglet  
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 More options May 16, 3:19 pm
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From: "aglet" <napwal...@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 01:19:45 -0400
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 3:19 pm
Subject: Re: Oh My Goodness...

"Annie C" <chern...@nevermindspring.com> wrote in message

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HEY!  That's MY house!!

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Towse  
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 More options May 16, 4:29 pm
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From: Towse <s...@towse.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 23:29:16 -0700
Local: Fri, May 16 2008 4:29 pm
Subject: Re: Oh My Goodness...

I don't dare show pictures of what I have. I didn't run out of shelf
space as much as run out of places to put bookcases. When we moved, we
had 800+ boxes (you know ... those Costco Willamette office boxes) of
books to move. We had our books, scattered here and there in this place
and that, plus my brother's books -- which had a lot of duplication but
also a lot of books that I didn't have. ...

We've been sorting and weeding and have given a full 5% of the books to
the-little-library-that-could up on the Mendocino coast
(<http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/library/coast.htm>) to add to their
collection or to sell for the benefit of the library.

More weeding to follow.

I *sympathize* with this person.

'tis hard to give up your books. I should know. Even though I have way
too many books already, I bought another clutch of books at Costco
yesterday, won Louise Ure's THE FAULT TREE in the raffle at the
MWA/NorCal meeting on Saturday, and just *happened* to pick up a few at
Stacey's last week.

'tis a disease, but a happy-making disease. ...
--
Sal

Ye olde swarm of links: thousands of links for writers, researchers and
the terminally curious <http://writers.internet-resources.com>


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Mary  
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 More options May 17, 12:19 am
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From: Mary <mrfeath...@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 07:19:17 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 12:19 am
Subject: Re: Oh My Goodness...
On May 15, 9:19 pm, Willow <panga...@telus.net> wrote:

> I spotted this ad in Craigslist:

> http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/bks/681115544.html

> 30 years come to an end...

> Willow

Holy cow.  Even I couldn't live like that.  I mean to say, how on
earth could you possibly find any one book?

Mary


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Lynn Allen  
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 More options May 17, 2:37 am
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From: Lynn Allen <l...@NOT-semiotics.com>
Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:37:52 -0700
Local: Sat, May 17 2008 2:37 am
Subject: Re: Oh My Goodness...
On 2008-05-16 07:19:17 -0700, Mary <mrfeath...@aol.com> said:

>> http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/bks/681115544.html

>> 30 years come to an end...

>> Willow

> Holy cow.  Even I couldn't live like that.  I mean to say, how on
> earth could you possibly find any one book?

Yeah...I was thinking "Those books near the bottom of the pile next to
the walls haven't seen the light of day in 25 years, I bet."  If
they're even still there. Bookworms. Silverfish. Mold. Mildew. Ewww.

There's collecting and preserving...and then there's hoarding.  When
you can't make use of what you have, make it of use to others, or you
can't keep it in good condition, then you're not doing yourself, the
world or the object(s) any service to keep them.
--
--
Lymaree


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J  
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 More options May 18, 4:45 am
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From: J <jmel...@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 11:45:26 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sun, May 18 2008 4:45 am
Subject: Re: Oh My Goodness...
I'd certainly like to follow the auctions, once this eBay thing gets
going...

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