From: Jason Joel Thompson (jasonjthompson@home.com)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 12:46:50 MDT
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From: "Technotranscendence" <neptune@mars.superlink.net>
> As for books in general, they're neat, but I don't fetishize them. It's
> their information I enjoy, not the physical act of handling or smelling
> them. (Not that I'm some kind of antisensualist. I definitely like
> physical acts of other sorts.:)
In general I probably pay somewhat less than average attention to the
maintenance and grooming of the physical objects in my life-- with the
glaring exception of my books.
I've read many of the books in my collection without breaking their spine--
indeed, without fully opening them. (The softcovers primarily...)
This has clearly spilled over into auxiliary endeavors-- I still have a
fairly respectible comic book collection I started in university.
Accordingly, despite the fact that I don't appear to have the 'packrat'
gene, my books seem to be the one thing with which I am unable to part.
--
::jason.joel.thompson::
::founder::
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