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Only if you hoard them. Once you're done, pass them on to someone else who can use them (friend, resell on amazon, used book store, donate).
by cottonseed 14y ago
Only if you hoard them. Once you're done, pass them on to someone else who can use them (friend, resell on amazon, used book store, donate).
- GuiA 14y ago>Once you're done That's the thing- I own many, many books (CLRS, Tufte's work, Graphics Programming Black Book, and dozens of others in the same vein) that I'm never really "done" with because I refer to them at least several times a year. As a researcher/engineer/professional, they're as valuable to me as some of other of my tools (computer, arduino, breadboard, etc.). I suspect that that's what Paul implies in his essay, and that he refers to such books rather than "50 shades of grey". (but sure, when it comes to novels or such books, yeah you can just give them away after you've read them).
- ableal 14y ago> Once you're done You can also rip out and burn each page as you go along, as a Spanish writer had his protagonist do habitually. I shuddered the first time I came across that, but it may have its advantages ... (Detective Pepe Carvalho in books by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Only book-reading detective that comes to mind besides Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe. Also cooks, if memory serves.)