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To: Rambi who wrote (36878)	5/6/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

See? Exactly what I mean! Shared memories and nostalgia. In our case, the tiny Southampton, Pa library. I remember the very shelves where the orange biographies were--at least those that weren't in our house. I ADORED them. I still like biography, mostly because of the love they instilled in me for people and places far, far away. (Interesting that you mostly remember the women and I mostly remember the men. But I read ALL of them many, many times--we drove to the library, about 5 miles away, every Tuesday evening after dinner for our library night. We were only supposed to be allowed two books each at a time (it was a small library), but the librarians appreciated children who loved to read, so they let us have as many as we wanted. How many families today have regular nights they go as a whole family to the library? And did Joan REALLY not read the orange biographies? What a vapid childhood she must have had. <bg>

To: Rambi who wrote (36878)	5/6/1999 10:08:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 108807

My family is hovering around, moaning over their empty plates, despairing of ever being fed their dinner. Tell your husband to take care of dinner tonight -- you've got more important things to do! <G>

To: Rambi who wrote (36878)	5/7/1999 11:10:00 AM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Amazingly enough, a number of those old books are now worth a king's ransom. Not things like The Hardy Boys' While the Clock Ticked, of which there are probably a nearly infinite number of copies moldering unwept in attic cardboard boxes, pages so fragile that you can't possibly fold over the corner to save your place (and yes, I admit to this unpardonable sacrilege, with cheap books anyway, although I had the quirk of never putting a mark on a textbook in college, no highlighting, underlining etc). But I have found that some of the lesser known hardcover series that I read are now between a hundred and five hundred dollars for a copy in good condition. The most expensive ones I think are some of the series that were published during the Second World War -- the reason being that during the war, paper quality in these books was very poor due to rationing of various commodities used to make paper. And most of them self destructed over time unless kept in the most pristine of environments. And yes, I read those little orange biographies too. They were ubiquitous.