My book-buying "problem"

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  1. KevinC

    KevinC Slightly wierd

    Sounds like my Mrs. She buys 10 - 15 books a month and only read half of them.
     
    KevinC, Nov 1, 2018
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  2. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Only idiots buy books for the second time Not realising they already have a copy of a particular book.
    What idiot would do that eh
     
    CL1, Nov 1, 2018
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  3. Charley Fortnum

    Charley Fortnum Dreaming of Red Eagles

    I had Andy copy an official War Office pamphlet (1949) on Military Aid To The Civil Power.

    The same day as the disc arrived from him I opened an envelope of paperwork purchased from eBay months earlier (but only later forwarded to me) to find an original copy of the same booklet.

    A trip to see my family in the UK is like a birthday; I find all the stuff that I've had sent there and forgotten I ever bought!
     
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  4. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    I recently started using Librarything for my history books to counter that 'do I already have this?' thing.
    It's not perfect, and doesn't help with showing when the bastards reprint under another title, but it is moderately useful.

    Slightly concerned it feeds the collecting urge, though, as I've had everything I don't have full sets of pushed to the forefront of my mind. It may be a plot by the booksellers.

    It is.
    It definitely is.
     
    von Poop, Nov 1, 2018
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  5. Tolbooth

    Tolbooth Patron Patron

    In my defence, yer 'onour, one did have a different cover and the other a different title......sure they do it deliberately.

    I've started carrying around one of those small Moleskine notebooks with list of WW2 books, list of Observers (do you know how many cover variations there are for the Observers book of Geology ?), list of Rupert annuals etc....
     
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  6. Chris C

    Chris C Canadian

    That reminds me of when I got interested in reading about WW2 again. I purchased Barry Pitt's books on the war in North Africa because I read them back in the 80s and really liked them.

    When I got my two volumes... they were from different reprints. So... I ordered a different copy of the second volume so I would have a matching set.
     
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  7. SDP

    SDP Incurable Cometoholic

    Different title and different cover. Ugh!....I bought a copy of 'A view from the Turret' by Bill Close (cost a bob or two and it costs way more now on eBay and elsewhere) then, a few years later, saw a new book by Bill Close published after his death with the text ostensibly discovered in his effects....so I bought it believing, reasonably, that this was '3RTR manna from Heaven' only to discover on its arrival that it was......yes, you've guessed it.....word for word the same. Publishers and their hype have a lot to answer for.
     
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  8. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Some sort of repository of reprint/retitling could be useful.
    I'm having terrible trouble working out if Spielberger on Panzer IV might be worth getting in what may or may not be its new edition.

    Hmm, what we need is a kind of website where people can create 'posts' in 'threads' on given subjects.
    Will have to look into that. :unsure:
     
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  9. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Oh, and for lists, might I suggest Google Keep.
    Meet Google Keep – Save your thoughts, wherever you are – Keep – Google
    Uncommonly good app/website for keeping notes of missing books, album's, DIY measurements, recipes etc. for those with no memory for anything other than 25 year old grudges.
    Stable, accessible from multiple devices, alarms by location (very handy). Has saved me many times while standing in a shop thinking 'why am I here again?'.
     
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  10. Tricky Dicky

    Tricky Dicky Don'tre member

    Paper & pencil anyone ??

    TD
     
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  11. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Oh dear we are not alone

    Tried the charity shop but as suggested before they jumped on the pricing bandwagon nothing much there
    Picked up World at War mag about the Chindits 1.29 told him to keep the penny miserable so and so
     
    CL1, Nov 1, 2018
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  12. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    A splendid pair of tools, but I am far more likely to have a phone in my pocket than either, and it keeps notes I took regarding, eg., weird lightbulb fittings, & publishers of series, many years ago.
    A piece of paper has this storage capacity, but it's jammed in the washing machine filter or inside a notepad at home. It also doesn't bleep to tell me I wanted something from a shop I only visit once or twice a year.

    I would never disrespect the pencil.
    I have a secondary stationary fetish.
    Things do move on, though.
     
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  13. papiermache

    papiermache Well-Known Member

    Yesterday at the One Pence Change Shop in Strutton Ground, Victoria Street, to find they will not open on Saturdays in future because of staff shortages.
    Acquired for £2.99 : " From Churchill's War Rooms" Letters of a Secretary 1943-45 by Joanna Moody . This is about Olive Christopher, a secretary who worked in Churchill's Cabinet War Rooms. "Sometimes they went to the breakfast bar just around the corner from Clive Steps, where they could get fresh scrambled eggs" ( but only on a Monday.)
     
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  14. timuk

    timuk Well-Known Member

    Probably the numpty who bought the wrong pin for his Swiss Army knife!
    Oh we all like a gadget

    Tim
     
    timuk, Nov 1, 2018
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  15. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Bloody pin is now 4p cheaper
     
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  16. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery


    Now firstly. A as in car E as in envelope.

    Pens and paper oh yes very good cant get enough of them.
    Favourite at the moment tactical pen and blank postcards
     
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  17. Tom OBrien

    Tom OBrien Senior Member

    No more books on Arnhem, no more books on Arnhem...

    Oh, that looks interesting...don't know much about them...oh god, the blurb looks really good...

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    Must not press "buy", must not press "buy now", must not...oh dear, how did that happen!:surr:

    :whistle::D

    Must not buy another Arnhem book this year...

    Regards

    Tom
     
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  18. idler

    idler GeneralList

    I just thought I'd slip that in...
     
    idler, Nov 1, 2018
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  19. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Sharp intake of breath! :wacko:
     
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  20. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

    Blimey. Post before midday? Have the end times come?
    Been meaning to get Drive For Freedom for a while (since seeing it hugely overpriced in an Oxfam shop, funnily enough). Published by The Society of Motor Manufacturers & Traders puffing their substantial war contribution.

    The Weeks. Dunno really. Couple of quid & looks quite good.

    Both perfect nick, dirt cheap & delivered fast so I'm happy.
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