Comments on: A Life of Reading http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/etc/2004/06/22/a-life-of-reading.php Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:57:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Joel http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/etc/2004/06/22/a-life-of-reading.php/comment-page-1#comment-119 Joel Tue, 22 Jun 2004 14:56:25 +0000 http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/?p=75#comment-119 Sigh. We have a book business (www.bookpile.com). Totally understand about not wanting to sell. But I was a business major and have steeled myself better than my partner to part with our stock. We currently have over 8k of books stocked with only a fraction on-line. Hmmm. Got to get busy... Sigh. We have a book business (www.bookpile.com). Totally understand about not wanting to sell. But I was a business major and have steeled myself better than my partner to part with our stock. We currently have over 8k of books stocked with only a fraction on-line. Hmmm. Got to get busy…

]]> By: Lorianne http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/etc/2004/06/22/a-life-of-reading.php/comment-page-1#comment-118 Lorianne Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:31:08 +0000 http://www.inkmuse.com/blog/?p=75#comment-118 Oooh, oooh, oooh! You *have* to read *The Book of Margery Kempe*: it's wild, wonderful stuff! I had my Women's Lit students read excerpts of it at the beginning of the term: MK was a wild lady. So few people have heard of her, but she led a wonderfully colorful life, wrote the first vernacular English autobiography, and *should* be someone people have heard of. Read it! I have a smaller (due to space constraints) collection than yours, so I typically have to get rid of/sell something if I want to buy something. There are ways, though, of making that a less painful process. One option is to give favorite books (ones you've read) to friends: "I read this; you'll love it." Something of a personal book club/referral circle! The other is to "free" books via sites like bookcrossing.com, where you label the book asking subsequent readers to post comments about the book to a website where you can track the book's progress as it free-ranges from reader to reader. Although *I've* never tried this (yet), I know folks who have, and it can be weirdly fun to share lit with strangers in this way. In the end, though, we bookworms are just weird. And there's no hope for the likes of us, I think... ;-) Oooh, oooh, oooh! You *have* to read *The Book of Margery Kempe*: it’s wild, wonderful stuff! I had my Women’s Lit students read excerpts of it at the beginning of the term: MK was a wild lady. So few people have heard of her, but she led a wonderfully colorful life, wrote the first vernacular English autobiography, and *should* be someone people have heard of. Read it!

I have a smaller (due to space constraints) collection than yours, so I typically have to get rid of/sell something if I want to buy something. There are ways, though, of making that a less painful process. One option is to give favorite books (ones you’ve read) to friends: “I read this; you’ll love it.” Something of a personal book club/referral circle!

The other is to “free” books via sites like bookcrossing.com, where you label the book asking subsequent readers to post comments about the book to a website where you can track the book’s progress as it free-ranges from reader to reader. Although *I’ve* never tried this (yet), I know folks who have, and it can be weirdly fun to share lit with strangers in this way.

In the end, though, we bookworms are just weird. And there’s no hope for the likes of us, I think… ;-)

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