Subtly reading home decorating magazines in shops is one of my favourite I'm-bored-let's-go-for-a-walk activities

I paid like 6 months rent last year from selling books, seems to me.

ok

i need some books

I've got a serious wish list right now

getting books is a pita though

(involves going to international post office and waiting a long time)

i used my pokerstars fpps to get like £200 of amazon vouchers, i still have £60 left, and I have a shelf of books I want to read, but for a couple of weeks none of which did i want to read right now.

Selling books also lets you see your walls, which is nice, dusky yellow or lilly white or whatever.

Some quick book reviews:
Gorky Park: recommended alongside Fatherland by Rober harris. Was pretty average, and nowhere near the same ballpark as Fatherland, which is really good, as is Archangel, but Harris's roman books suck, and the Ghost is a work of sheer idiocy.
Death in Venice: meh.
The last of mr norris (or something, one of 'the berlin stories' by Christopher Isherwood): not what I expected at all, but a very English novel, set in Berlin in the 1930s. Really very good indeed, so far.
Wages of guilt: Ian Buruma, included because it pertains to the germans/ww2/versailles treaty chat we had a while back, and because Ian Buruma is one of the really good writiers on Japan. An investigation into the history of WW2 in Germany and Japan, very interesting.

idk if you know but the masters is on cbs

given the new book/used book markets, I think this logic may be a little backward. Especially if you have a library anywhere remotely close.

Also - I will buy books that Alice doesn't want (not any old books though, wants I want to read)

I can't find my camera cable, which is annoying because it's going to make the next pub game really tricky.

Pub Game: What ate my broad beans?

wabbits

selling books sounds but there comes a point in your life, if you're a reader, where you have to either 1) sell some, 2) stop reading or 3) be rich enough to buy a giant house.

Better question. What are broad beans?

You might be surprised how strong the used book market is. The bulk of the money I made last year was from unloading tons of Easton Press and Folio Society leather-bound and cloth-bound fine editions of classics. Made a tidy profit on many of them even after ebay/amazon seller fees. And all those books are available for free in a variety of formats on gutenburg.org so I can read them whenever I want.

Things like mass market paperbacks are valueless unless they are out of print or something, I just paid $6 for an oop paperback Greg Egan book called Diaspora, after having read his brilliant short story Wang's Carpets (best short story I've read in years), but that is highly unusual, most go for pennies + shipping.

I sold my copy of Man, Economy and State for double what I paid for it which is just fine since it's freely available on mises.org.

oh yeah wyman is fourth not amp

I'll grab some pictures soon. They are tearing around the house now, gaining new skillz every day and having kitty warz.

and much of the reason I lost interest in collecting those fine editions is that the humidity here can go from 10% to 90% and back within a couple of days, and that is terrible for books. Building book humidors seemed excessive.

OMFG Mickelson is a genius

OMFG Mickelson is an idiot

tiger just eagled
shame he gave so many strokes away today

so, am i a retart for liking books like 'dracula' and such?

no, you're a retart for like a million other reasons

I have an abstract algebra book I'd be willing to sell.

also some random econ books

name 50 of them

your posts

thats not what i meant when i said name them.
i know thats what i said, but its not what i meant.
you should have asked me what i really meant before you reacted to what i said

happy national poetry month

(i chose the shortest one possible to start with ldo)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaBpMVo5iog

Buffalo Bill's
defunct
who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus

he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blueeyed boy
Mister Death