Gurney - I'm the same. I cannot bear to read a book just once. I like to be able to go back and read it again and again - there's one particular author that I read on an annual basis (Susan Cooper - Dark is rising sequence) and consequently our house is mostly furnished with bookshelves.

I do deplore Manitas' habit of buying a book without checking if we already have it - we have 3 copies of one novel!

How the heck I got into reading so much I don't know... most of my colleagues have never so much as cracked the spine of a hardback and are amazed when I finish a book in under a week. One colleague proudly announced that her present book was the quickest she'd ever read - only 3 months in and nearly finished.

LTS