Anyone else behave like this when it comes to buying books?

[Flip Martian]

I'd post a pic of my waiting list but they're in 4 bookcases across 3 rooms... Still, after a while you get the "oh, I'd forgotten I had that, that looks interesting..." moment.

[Joey Ramone]

g3org3y said:

Joey Ramone said:

My employers give me £1500 per annum to spend on books. My Amazon wish-list is growing by the day.

I want your job!

I'm a university lecturer so, within reason, they all have to be roughly related to the subject area. But the subject area is history, so it's pretty broad...

[Shadow R1]

Flip Martian said:

I'd post a pic of my waiting list but they're in 4 bookcases across 3 rooms... Still, after a while you get the "oh, I'd forgotten I had that, that looks interesting..." moment.

I've done that, go to put newly acquired book on shelf only to find I already have it.
I had 3 copies of the Philadelphia project at one point.

I did wonder how many books you had, I guessed it was a few from the other thread.

[Flip Martian]

Shadow R1 said:

I've done that, go to put newly acquired book on shelf only to find I already have it.
I had 3 copies of the Philadelphia project at one point.

I did wonder how many books you had, I guessed it was a few from the other thread.

I've done that "damn, already got it" thing too often - all my books are on LibraryThing now. And there's a free app for my android phone which just basically takes the file from that, so I have it for reference whn I'm shopping. Which works really well - until (as on Saturday) I bought 2 books I didn't think I had, only to find I do have them and hadn't added them to LT for some reason...

LT collection is just under 600 so far - but that's not all of the books yet; still got a lot of old Agatha Christie paperbacks and other things inherited from my Nan.

A new bookcase is on order.

[g3org3y]

Shadow R1 said:

Flip Martian said:

I'd post a pic of my waiting list but they're in 4 bookcases across 3 rooms... Still, after a while you get the "oh, I'd forgotten I had that, that looks interesting..." moment.

I've done that, go to put newly acquired book on shelf only to find I already have it.

+1

[Flip Martian]

g3org3y said:

Shadow R1 said:

Flip Martian said:

I'd post a pic of my waiting list but they're in 4 bookcases across 3 rooms... Still, after a while you get the "oh, I'd forgotten I had that, that looks interesting..." moment.

I've done that, go to put newly acquired book on shelf only to find I already have it.

+1

For anyone finding they've already got a book at home and have bought it again (most of us at some point, I'm sure), I can definitely recommend Librarything. While its web based, they do have an iphone app. While there's no official android app, I use a free 3rd party offline app called Offline Bookshelf Browser which syncs with your LT collection so you can use it for reference in the basement of an old bookshop miles from a mobile mast or wireless network.

It works really well - until you realise when you got home that somehow you managed to not input a couple of books into your LT collection and now you came home with duplicates (me, last month).

[james28]

Yes on some of the Ian Fleming Novels Sometimes you just have to have it.

[Shadow R1]

I got 2,3,4 of the long earth Terry Pratchett series.
I got the first from the charity shop, then had to get the other ones.

Just finished the edge chronicles, the winter knights i will add the others to my list for finding.
Edit* just found that is book 5 of 10, it still worked stand alone, but perhaps reading from the 1st one would set the stage a little more.