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"John Pelan" wrote in message ... On 15 Apr 2006 10:12:12 -0700, (Bleach-bottle Bill) wrote: A lengthy post... (Which has been snipped for reasons that should be obvious) Sorry, in all frankness I tried to read it and found it utterly tedious. Oooo, somebody's about to get flamed to Cleveland. |
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fundoc wrote:
"John Pelan" wrote in message ... On 15 Apr 2006 10:12:12 -0700, (Bleach-bottle Bill) wrote: A lengthy post... (Which has been snipped for reasons that should be obvious) Sorry, in all frankness I tried to read it and found it utterly tedious. Oooo, somebody's about to get flamed to Cleveland. Whew. Only Cleveland. That is better than Sandusky. Francis A. Miniter |
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Don Phillipson wrote:
1. Discussion to date seems to omit current preferences, e.g. the OP did not say he read mostly fiction, non-fiction, 19th century etc. A good, well-rounded library of books I was forced to read in high school and can now appreciate, books I never got a chance to read in college and can now do so, books I've read and enjoyed before and will do so again... (And a bunch of science fiction, for the geek in me. William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, the obligatory Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, etc.) Ted Jones wrote: The more I think about it, the more I think the "Folio Society" may be your Pelikan. My suggestion, go to e-bay; search "folio society"; find a book you like and buy it. Usually the cost will be quite modest. The problem will be shipping. Thanks; I poked around and did find some that looked interesting, but then the price more than doubled with Royal Air Mail. The book shop in Corina is "The Book Shop" in Corina. Many, many thanks; through them and the ABAA's site, I found a number of booksellers within a reasonable range (the Palisades, etc) with titles I'm interested in. Covina is just a convenient stopping place on the way to Redlands. A couple of exits later, you could jump out, shout the "Och Tamale" and be on your way. A bulldog, then? Gazolly Gazump! Fortunately the antique pen folk don't troll this newsgroup. There are many who diss Quink. You may find a trip to the L.A. Pen Show in February rewarding. Fortunately, I don't have any antique pens, and could care less what those folk have to say about Quink. Actually, I would listen, as often such criticism is well founded. But for my purposes, fueling a couple of cheapie pens (an Aurora Ipsilon and a Pelikan M200) through law school notes, Quink did me just fine; it flowed smoothly, dried quickly, and is readily available (there's a Staples that carries it about three blocks from where I was living while in law school). Shrug wrote: only characterize a certain percentage of people who buy Eastons. Those are the sort of people who are attracted to them only because of their very high quality of manufacture, but never reads the books. .... ignorant ever to understand what such a phrase means with respect to book appreciation. But since you are aware of that, what is to stop you from being the sort of collector who actually reads the books and absorbs the content as well as appreciating the manufacture? So, confused, Eastons are a worthwhile purchase then? (Again, resale value isn't my focus; I want to populate my shelves with good copies of old -- and yet to be discovered -- favorites. But I'd also prefer not to have anyone who "knows books" see half a wall of Eastons and say to themselves, "ah, you're one of *those*...") Whatever I get, Easton or otherwise, will be read before being shelved. Jack Campin - bogus address wrote: For one of the categories the OP mentioned, you don't get much choice if content matters. The Oxford UP edition of Shakespeare a few years ago is a long way ahead of all the earlier ones in its standard of scholarship, and there aren't many alternative physical realizations of it. For literary value, there's bugger-all point in owning any earlier one. Like this? http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/gen...=9780199267170 Already on my shelf, though it's not the most attractive (somewhat cheesy dust cover). |
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I'd like to start building a personal library. I'd love to find books
that are attractive to shelve and high quality, but still readable. But I'd also prefer not to have anyone who "knows books" see half a wall of Eastons and say to themselves, "ah, you're one of *those*...") One of "what"? (I'm guessing that you mean an elitist) I think that everyone would agree that Eastons are, at the least, very attractive and better than average quality. That meets the criteria you mentioned in your first post. If you're concerned that someone will think you're a "collector" and not a "reader", keep whichever book you are reading close at hand. Of course, if the library is in your office, people might think you're reading fiction when you should be researching their problem. And if it is in your house...well...anyone you invite into your home should have an idea going in whether or not you are "one of those" |
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"Sam" wrote in message oups.com... I'd like to start building a personal library. I'd love to find books that are attractive to shelve and high quality, but still readable. But I'd also prefer not to have anyone who "knows books" see half a wall of Eastons and say to themselves, "ah, you're one of *those*...") One of "what"? (I'm guessing that you mean an elitist) I think that everyone would agree that Eastons are, at the least, very attractive and better than average quality. That meets the criteria you mentioned in your first post. If you're concerned that someone will think you're a "collector" and not a "reader", keep whichever book you are reading close at hand. Of course, if the library is in your office, people might think you're reading fiction when you should be researching their problem. And if it is in your house...well...anyone you invite into your home should have an idea going in whether or not you are "one of those" If you're making decisions about the kinds of books that you have in your house based upon what you think people will think of you when they walk into your house and see your books then you're an imbecile. |
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Fortunately the antique pen folk don't troll this newsgroup. There are
many who diss Quink. You may find a trip to the L.A. Pen Show in February rewarding. Fortunately, I don't have any antique pens, and could care less what those folk have to say about Quink. Actually, I would listen, as often such criticism is well founded. But for my purposes, fueling a couple of cheapie pens (an Aurora Ipsilon and a Pelikan M200) through law school notes, Quink did me just fine; it flowed smoothly, dried quickly, and is readily available (there's a Staples that carries it about three blocks from where I was living while in law school). Shrug I used to do all my original composition with a fountain pen. And I used Quink. Not a great ink. Too thin, not really a true black. We won't even speak of those who use (shudder) "blue" Quink. What ever possessed our race to made blue ink is beyond me. I found that I could not find for any money a pen that would not dribble and blob over the page as I was writing. I gave up on fountain pens. The good news is, by that time the personal computer and word processor were invented. Whatever the faults of my keyboard, it never blobs ink. |
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The structure of a collection can be almost anything. Ian Fleming
put together a collection of first printings of books that changed the world, e.g. Watson and Crick, "The Double Helix". Since when did any popular science book change the world? Did Fleming think that book was how the result got into the public domain? ============== j-c ====== @ ====== purr . demon . co . uk ============== Jack Campin: 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland | tel 0131 660 4760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ for CD-ROMs and free | fax 0870 0554 975 stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, & Mac logic fonts | mob 07800 739 557 |
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