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This is the polar opposite relationship to books from me. Can’t imagine doing this 🤔 I’d sell them all and buy kindle or cheap new paper editions if I actually wanted the books.
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I have one bookcase dedicated to first editions of classics, signed copies of best-sellers and even one book that belonged to President Thomas Jefferson...from his personal library.
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I have a 1750 edition of Plutarch's Lives with a library seal on it I traced back to a Jacobin who needed to flee London for Dublin in 1792 and was selling his books to arrange passage. Kindle can't get you that.
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Can your paperback or Kindle books give you the same feeling as when you hold a book in your hand that was owned, handled and personally inscribed "EX LIBRIS Thomas Jefferson"... inside the front cover... in his own handwriting? That, I doubt very seriously.
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