On 9/20/2010 20:39 PM, J wrote:
On Sep 19, 5:45�pm, "Francis A.
wrote:

Connecticut also has almost weekly library book sales, and
many of these books are donations from private parties. �Two
Saturdays ago, for instance, three towns had sales with tens
of thousands of books. �I went to one and sent my wife to
another. �


Nothing like teamwork! Do you keep in contact via cellphone to avoid
duplication?


See, but not so much for duplication. I know the collection
much better than she does, so she may ask me whether I have
a certain book. Occasionally, though, when I am at a book
sale and she is not, I will call when I myself am uncertain.
It provides a considerable amount of exercise for her,
because mystery novels are on the second floor, while
history and English literature are in the Basement, and
American literature is on the first and second floors. My
questions to her tend to be, for example, "Basement bookcase
at the bottom of the stairs, what printing is Byatt's Angels
and Insects? I think it is the third shelf down."

--
Francis A. Miniter

In dem Lande der Pygmäen
gibt es keine Uniformen,
weder Abzeichen, noch irgend welche Normen,
Und Soldaten sind dort nicht zu sehen.

Siegfried von Vegesack, "Es gibt keine Uniformen"
from In dem Lande der Pygmäen