If there's a twelve step program for bookaholics I don't want to know about it...let my heirs try to deal with the collection.

I suffered great trauma when I had to sell my library about fifteen years ago. I couldn't afford the freight to move from Oregon to Florida with more than I could pack into a Datsun pickup. Then I got a job as a bookstore clerk and the bookaholism previously contained by poverty, ran wild.

17 sets of bookshelves comprising 194 linear ft. About 20ft of LP's, tapes, CD's. 20 boxes of scruffy books, magazines to be clipped when I get around to it, clippings to be sorted and filed. Oh, yes, the mantle over the fireplace has 4ft of the books I meant to read next.

My first pass through the ERHamilton catalog this past month resulted in $600 worth of books I MUST have and my attempts to trim the order were interupted by the arrival last night of the new book catalog.

My name's Jeff and I'm a bookaholic.