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Are you a BOOK NUT?? Do you read a lot??

attackturtle

attackturtle

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My wife does.. Romance, Sci Fi, Mystery, everything. We used to keep books that we never used and would sell them for pennies to local shops.. Then we found bookmooch...

www.bookmooch.com

How it works is you put books up your willing to part with and mail them to whoever contacts you for them. YOU pay shipping.. We use large envelopes and use the automated machine at the post office for postage. Avg cost is $2.00 a book. You get a point for every book you let get mooched and you give a point for every book you mooch from somebody else.. Its real neat. We were sick of selling books for next to nothing. We have used the site for 6 months now. We were skeptical and there is some what less than honest folk but so far, its been a really positive experiance.

Theres more too it like a feedback system so you know who is on the up and up and you get a 1/10 of a point for posting a book to be mooched but for the most part, thats it..
 
TrpnBils said:
is this an ad?
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I don't think so...

Sounds like a cool idea. But I have books I bought months ago I still haven't gotten around to reading, and I'm still buying more. I'm compulsive like that (but only with books).
 
I LOVE to read. My favorite series is The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan. I've read it 3 times in a row. There are 11 books, averaging 700-980+ pages each.
 
Well, when I was being bullied at school I used to go to the libary, I generally found nice people there and made some friends, I never used to read but then one day I was thinking about the harry potter movies, and I just thought it would be cool to read the books, so I asked my mum for them, she got them for me I was really happy, at first it was hard, I could hardly read and when i was reading about the charactors I could see the actors, anyways my reading become better and better and the books got better and better, in the end i read the last book in one day, and now reading is one of my faviourate things to do, I really do thank JKR for that, she's a great woman and Harry Potter was really the best, I want to re-read them in the future at the moment though I'm reading northern lights then I'm going to read lord of the rings :D

so yea lol, I do read a lot now :D
 
I read constantly. I never leave the house without at least one book in my bag in case I'm ever stuck in line somewhere or stuck in traffic. I even have a bookshelf in the bathroom. I'm also one of those people who writes marginalia in their books. I'll read pretty much anything, but I mostly focus on classics (especially 19th century Russians, Americans, and Britons), political/history, social science (especially ones dealing with race, queer studies, and feminism), poetry, and those humorists that NPR loves so much (e.g., Sedaris, Vowell, Rakoff, Burroughs).

But I could never give up any of my books. They're too precious to me. I've come up with a rule that if a friend wants to borrow one of my books, I just buy them a copy, as they never seem to give the books back to me.

v_various: I can do you one better. I have probably about 400 books on my shelves that I still haven't read. Some of them have been on the shelves for over 10 years. I'm constantly buying new books, so I sometimes don't get around to older ones. And I work in a library, so that doesn't help.

Pet_Corn_Snake: I was always rather dismissive of the Harry Potter series, but while I was at UCLA, I noticed that EVERYONE on campus was reading whatever new installment had just been published. So I started reading the first one just to see what the big fuss was. It turned out to be very entertaining--an excellent way to unwind between midterms. (And at UCLA, the only time you're not studying for a midterm is when you're studying for finals.) The later installments turned out to be very clever.

-jimmie
 
aztek said:
No, I'm not a nerd.
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it's for people who enjoy using there imagination, there's many other reasons people read too..

there's no such thing as a (nerd) some people are just different, and I think you find that all those different people are generally a lot nicer then the (cool) people.
 
Pet Corn Snake said:
it's for people who enjoy using there imagination, there's many other reasons people read too..

there's no such thing as a (nerd) some people are just different, and I think you find that all those different people are generally a lot nicer then the (cool) people.
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I think it was a joke.

Besides, I can out-nerd anyone here. Comic books? Heck ya! Role playing games? I NPC'ed in a boffer LARP last weekend. Conventions? I helped in the con operations dept for a few.

It's good to be a nerd.
 
attackturtle said:
My wife does.. Romance, Sci Fi, Mystery, everything. We used to keep books that we never used and would sell them for pennies to local shops.. Then we found bookmooch...
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I read tons of books. All kinds of romances...romantic suspense, mystery romance, paranormal romance, contemporary, historical...pretty much anything but space aliens. I read 3-4 books a week.

I haven't tried bookmooch yet, but I use PaperBackSwap and I *LOVE* it. It's free and it's amazing. Saves me bucketloads of money and therefore keeps my hubby from killing me for my out of control book habit. :D

My PBS username is blueroses99 by the way...in case any of you are members there.
 
v_various said:
I think it was a joke.

Besides, I can out-nerd anyone here. Comic books? Heck ya! Role playing games? I NPC'ed in a boffer LARP last weekend. Conventions? I helped in the con operations dept for a few.

It's good to be a nerd.
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I've always wanted to try out a table-top RPG and even have the D&D core rulebooks (3.5, I think), but never had a chance. I used to play Magic as well, but the few friends of mine who played it gave it up, so my cards just sit in their binder.

I would be a hardcore nerd if I just knew someone else who was a hardcore nerd. :p

Sort of on topic, though, who here is taking part in the NaNoWriMo? (National Novel Writing Month). You have to write a 50,000 word novel between Nov 1 and 31. I signed up this year and have a basic plot outlined. Needs a bit more work before Nov 1 rolls around, however.
 
yea, somebody else just recommended the paperbookswap to me. looks bigger. We may join that too.

I do puzzles. Is that nerdy?
 
Pet Corn Snake said:
it's for people who enjoy using there imagination, there's many other reasons people read too..

there's no such thing as a (nerd) some people are just different, and I think you find that all those different people are generally a lot nicer then the (cool) people.
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Calm down...
I read.
 
I've always been a nerd, always will be. I just don't bother explaining to anyone the how and why of the pleasure I get from my book collection, or from learning, or tramping around with binoculars at the ready, or museums and art galleries.
I'm probably old enough to be eccentric now! :cheers:
 
Buying books has become a compulsion for me. I can't leave a store in my area called Half-Price Books without buying at least $20 worth of books, which can be quite a few books with the discount I get & the $1 clearance books I buy. In college, I used to make special trips to the Madison, WI store because it was the closest one to me (in Ripon, WI, about an hour away?)...and then when I moved to Chicago, 2 years later, a store was opened not too far from me...and then all of a sudden, 2 more came about -- with one being only 20 MINUTES away now! I now make myself only shop in the clearance section because I spend way too much...I also have a hard time parting with any books...I know that I already have at least a thousand...

And yes, I do read them all. I have several stacks near my bed, plus bookcases full. The kicker is when I find that I bought the same book twice...then I give it away. :) (I think that I've done that twice, along with buy the same book three times...I had just really been meaning to read it, and I kept forgetting because I often have 3 books going at the same time...)

It also doesn't help that I'm now a teacher, too...I buy tons of books for my classroom, which of course I adore. :) My students have plenty of books available to them & some come back, every year, always looking to borrow more from me...:)

It's fun. :)
 
Cegninedorf said:
Buying books has become a compulsion for me. I can't leave a store in my area called Half-Price Books without buying at least $20 worth of books
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Ugh, same here...and with five Half Price Books locations in a 20-minute radius from my house, that can mean big trouble for me and my bank account. :D

My husband has learned to recognize my "bookstore voice"...the quiet way I talk to him when I'm browsing in a HPB. When he hears me speak in that voice, his first words are always, "Oh great, you're spending all our money." :grin01:
 
texastailfeathers said:
Ugh, same here...and with five Half Price Books locations in a 20-minute radius from my house, that can mean big trouble for me and my bank account. :D

My husband has learned to recognize my "bookstore voice"...the quiet way I talk to him when I'm browsing in a HPB. When he hears me speak in that voice, his first words are always, "Oh great, you're spending all our money." :grin01:
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Oooh, that is dangerous. I emailed their main headquearters and I told them that I can't move to Charlotte, NC (where all of my family lives) until they establish a store somewhere there. They replied that they'd work on it. :)

We need a 12-step HPB program...:)
 
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