Books!

I have a packrat family. It has gotten much better over the last few years (especially for my siblings and myself) but my parents are a bit, uh, off the deep end

Check out the books my dad is GIVING away (selling some!) because he just simply has way too many. And that's not even all of them, he has 16 more boxes to sift through.

OMG!!! That's just a fraction of the books my family collectively owns ...thank God I've only bought the ones I really, really like and enjoy and treasure and don't really hoard ones I would never read, or just because I'm a compulsive buyer. I've given away all the magazines I used to hoard (think...thousands upon thousands) and have only kept a very, very few.

He's actually glad to get rid of these, he said he has been imprisoned by thousands of books for the last few decades! LOL!

 

I come from a long line of pack rats as well. I'm trying to break the cycle by only keeping essentials at my apartment but it's difficult! Almost everything has some kind of sentimental value lol.

 

^Took me years to break out of that...but now, Im really, really trying to keep it pared down to essentials! I've come a long way though...day by day. We can do it!

 

Mmmm books... my guilty pleasure. Send them to London!

 

nowadays we can fit all that on a postage sized computer chip

 

Sure, but having done the e-book thing for a while, I still prefer the old-fashioned books. Hardcover ones especially.

I think that they just need a high-quality, inexpensive e-book reader that looks like a great hardcover book, and offers mimetic touch-screen page turning. With a good backlight, I could see myself buying that, and then stocking up on e-books again.

 

I tried, but I just can't bring myself to read a book on a screen. It just doesn't feel right.

 

PDA screens are easier than full-sized ones, but I agree that they're not as nice as printed pages.

 

You got nothing on me! I have literally crates that I pick up in
S and M every time we got to Davao ro Butuan which was 2 times a week up until a couple of weeks ago. I trade them around the village with the 4 other English readers. Hey, you know any place to cop Arabic or any other languages in Manila, or better yet points south?

Anyway, wish I was near you I could get my hands on some of THOSE! Once triped to use Amazon here and you can imagine how that went.

 

Books are ok.

Stuffed animals and childrens toys on the other hand....

I question the maturity of any adult with a plethora of plush toys on their bed pillows or their car's rear dash panel.

Ugh.

 

Putangina!

 

Lol!