My Mom is a true definiton of one and becomes depressed when she cannot get a new one in her grips. I have never seen someone so emotionally dependent on getting a new book. My Mom can read a huge huge book within the week. when I was younger it used to drive me nuts because the house was all book shelves and books on the floor piling up omg! Now I understand more and they are lovely to look at when displayed nicely. Very comforting. I'm starting to get it.
I have the twin absorptions of book and stamp collecting with a dash of record collecting as well. Although there have been many hoarders in these fields, the real joy is in the search for treasure. Imagine-that Great Gatsby with a beautiful dust jacket is worth at least 150K. That would be my Holy Grail-improbable but I’ve made many improbable finds. If I were in Paris everyone would know what everything is worth, although liquidity would be much more attainable. The lure of books will never die-the Internet’s substitutions are ridiculously inadequate and banal.
My bookshop Blitzgeist in Harborne Birmingham for 12 years from 1980 earned me enough to go into property & to finally sit here in my Italian Riviera villa surrounded by my personal library worth a mint. We recently bought 2 apartments above my art-gallery to become reading-rooms as a means of decanting my overflowing ever-expanding collections, which includes the largest illustrated volume since Leonardo, hand-written and named THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GOD ALMIGHTY a vast work of 50+ years on mathematics, logic, philosophy, art, literature, language foundations [Arabic Greek Latin German & English]. Yesterday I was looking for Cervantes' The Dialogogue of the Dogs & found a pb Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz signed by him in friendship, unreadable rubbish. My American comics collection is formidable, bookcase after bookcase full of delights. My gallery Arte del Fulmine can be see on TH-cam Dolcedo Art of the Thunderbolt Ground-floor & Mezzanine showing a small part of my library but the BBC film also on TH-cam called The Lost Genius shows more. I once owned a beautiful 19th century [famous] pen-drawing of Rimbaud but my mother threw it on the fire whilst moving house ...
I still wrote three books last year despite having a TH-cam channel The books are on meditation and spirituality and because they are like a subject book so I thought that writing a book is like documenting the knowledge I attained through my spiritual explorations
My Mom is a true definiton of one and becomes depressed when she cannot get a new one in her grips. I have never seen someone so emotionally dependent on getting a new book. My Mom can read a huge huge book within the week. when I was younger it used to drive me nuts because the house was all book shelves and books on the floor piling up omg! Now I understand more and they are lovely to look at when displayed nicely. Very comforting. I'm starting to get it.
You are not a real bibliomaniac until your floor collapses from the weight of your books.
lol, love this comment! I'm four years late but still, great one!
Amazing!
I'm a bibliophile but nowhere near this man's level. Gotta go to Paris now though
I have the twin absorptions of book and stamp collecting with a dash of record collecting as well. Although there have been many hoarders in these fields, the real joy is in the search for treasure. Imagine-that Great Gatsby with a beautiful dust jacket is worth at least 150K. That would be my Holy Grail-improbable but I’ve made many improbable finds. If I were in Paris everyone would know what everything is worth, although liquidity would be much more attainable. The lure of books will never die-the Internet’s substitutions are ridiculously inadequate and banal.
Martin Sone was an amazing guitarist btw.
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I wonder whether that guy's cat ever pees on his book stacks when he isn't looking.
My bookshop Blitzgeist in Harborne Birmingham for 12 years from 1980 earned me enough to go into property & to finally sit here in my Italian Riviera villa surrounded by my personal library worth a mint. We recently bought 2 apartments above my art-gallery to become reading-rooms as a means of decanting my overflowing ever-expanding collections, which includes the largest illustrated volume since Leonardo, hand-written and named THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF GOD ALMIGHTY a vast work of 50+ years on mathematics, logic, philosophy, art, literature, language foundations [Arabic Greek Latin German & English]. Yesterday I was looking for Cervantes' The Dialogogue of the Dogs & found a pb Carlos Fuentes' The Death of Artemio Cruz signed by him in friendship, unreadable rubbish. My American comics collection is formidable, bookcase after bookcase full of delights. My gallery Arte del Fulmine can be see on TH-cam Dolcedo Art of the Thunderbolt Ground-floor & Mezzanine showing a small part of my library but the BBC film also on TH-cam called The Lost Genius shows more. I once owned a beautiful 19th century [famous] pen-drawing of Rimbaud but my mother threw it on the fire whilst moving house ...
I admire you, love you. Mexican here and I adore Fuentes.
I still wrote three books last year despite having a TH-cam channel
The books are on meditation and spirituality and because they are like a subject book so I thought that writing a book is like documenting the knowledge I attained through my spiritual explorations
Also thank God for e-books. Hopefully more value would be attributed on the information of the book and not what it is printed on.
ebooks, once purchased, have zero resale value. not real books.
E books suck. You don't actually own it. You own the right to read it. That's half the fun.