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Thread #86460   Message #1608083
Posted By: Rapparee
18-Nov-05 - 08:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
Subject: RE: BS: Books You've Read More Than Once
Ah...I'm a librarian. I honestly can't remember all of them.

But I'll put this into perspective: I don't purchase for myself anything I don't plan to re-read. There are about 5,900 books in the house at the moment. There are 30 shelves of books in my office, 36 in the other room. Each shelf holds about 30 books. That's about 1,980 books within 50 feet of me here in the basement, and that only counts those on the shelving units we bought, not the books on the "built in" shelves. Nor does it count the books upstairs.

Best way to tell you: the books run the gamut from Robert Heinlein to Dana Stabenow to Nicolai Gogol to Marie Webster to Shakespeare to Chaucer to Dee Brown to Twain to Bill Watterson to Hofstadter to Hawking to Ed McGivern -- and beyond.