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To: Gauguin who wrote (38514)	9/23/1999 9:14:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I love books too, but I (almost) gave up buying them a few years ago. Now I try to restrict my book madness to borrowing them from the library... often have about 12-15 out at a time....mainly art and nature books, but also things like herbalism, local histories, architecture, cookbooks, poetry, short stories...Eeeeekkk!!! actually, they could be on anything I guess. Luckily our library system has a super catalogue that can be accessed using a TelNet connection and it's easy to reserve stuff. The music CD and videotape collections are excellent as well. Perfect arrangement for someone like.....me.

To: Gauguin who wrote (38514)	9/23/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

It's silly, but when I am moving them, I really get pissed off at the ones that have odd-ball sizes, because they won't fit in with the systems I have for stacking them. I think, "who do you think YOU are, sweetie?" Frequently one of the more mundane books, trying to tart itself up with an odd height or width. Like the books that are printed from handwriting, or in brown or blue ink. Like everyone that contributed to the art of typography over the last 500 years was a moron or something. Garamond, Caslon, Bodoni, even Gutenberg himself, mere pikers compared to these geniuses. Am I really a bitch, or am I just tired and cranky?