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In What Condition Are Your Books?, What do you do to insure there safety? Where do you keep them? |
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 Dec 16 2007, 07:20 AM
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Gringotts Goblin Translator
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My books are in a pretty good condition, especially my Potters. Except maybe a couple that I've lead to people... which I regret a lot. Right now most of my books are in a massive box, because, we're about to move. The rest of them are either on my bedside table or on my desk. I've never had a proper bookcase but my parents have promised that they are going to get one build into my wall when we move. Though I think that this is partly because my mother is tired of having my books covering every surface of my room. I also don't like anyone touching my books! That might sound drastic but you should see the way they handle them!!  Especially my brother who blackmails me by bending or damaging them until I do exactly what he says. I also don't like them do be in the sun for too long, in case they fade.
So all in all my books are in an O.K state not perfect but still acceptable 
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Dec 16 2007, 07:37 AM
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Perusing the Magical Menagerie
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Most of my books are in a great condition, except for the ones I've landed or 'Zodiac' on which I accidentally spilled some water. 
But they all look almost new. The other day I went to the bookstore to buy 'The subtle knife' and 'The amber spyglass', and I was surprised that none of the books were in a decent condition. My 'Northern Lights' has already met all of my bags and has been to every single place I've been in the past week, and it looks great. At least much better than the 'new' books in the bookshop.
QUOTE(dompeldoris's favourite @ Dec 16 2007, 10:20 AM)  I also don't like anyone touching my books! That might sound drastic but you should see the way they handle them!! Especially my brother who blackmails me by bending or damaging them until I do exactly what he says.
My sister does the same thing when she wants something from me!! She aims particularly on my Harry Potter and Jane Austen books. When she wants to be drastic, she aims my Jonathan Safran Foer books (they have all been autographed by the author).
Yeah, she's the sweetest girl in the world. 
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 Dec 16 2007, 08:29 AM
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In Charge of Invisible Books of Invisibility
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I kind of feel ashamed to say this now, after you've all said how yours are all in good condition... but a lot of mine are a bit battered. It's where I keep re-reading them, and leaving them lying around places, and shoving them into bags.Whilst their not being read, some make it on to my book case, but not all will fit, so there are quite a lot dotted about all over the place. When I'm older I'd like to have a big reading room, with lots of wooden book cases and a huge desk in the room with a fireplace. Then I can just choose a book and read. Bliss!
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Dec 16 2007, 10:22 AM
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Leaky's Resident Luna Biographer
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Oh, don't feel bad, Micromys minutus, a lot of my books are pretty battered too. Either because I've read them so much, they got crushed in a box or backpack, or because I had them when I was younger and didn't take great care of my books. Our family's paperback CoS, for instance, is falling apart we've read it so much!
Thankfully, I've gotten much better about my books and I freak if they bend or wrinkle. I hate lending books to people, especially my sister, because they almost always come back in worse shape than when before I lent them to her. I do, however, always write in the margins of books and highlight things in my books. It's just a habit I have, and the reason I can never get library books! Still, despite that, my books are in fantastic condition, at least the ones I've bought in the last 3 years. 
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Dec 16 2007, 10:28 AM
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Hiding in the Iron Maiden at Borgin and Burkes
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My newer books are in fairly good condition but the ones I have had for awhile are not so fortunate.
My soft covers are mostly dog eared and faded while most of my hard covers either have the front or back cover missing or are now two books because they have rent down the middle of the spine.
So if I had to name my favorite authors by the poor conditions of my books I would say Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Homer, Chaucer, Kipling and good old Shakespeare are definitely it. 
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Dec 16 2007, 10:35 AM
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Cauldron Bottom Measurer
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I'm luckily the only obsessive reader in my family, so nobody purposefully damages my books. I only have one meduim-sized stand-alone wooden bookshelf, and I yearn for the day I can get a better one. Maybe when I go to University the dorm will have a built-in one, that'd be sweet...
Anyway, My books are mostly paperback, so they have frayed edges and dog-eared pages. I need to stock up on bookmarks. My most damaged book is my most loved, Gone with the Wind, it's cover is falling off, the pages are falling off, the printing is faded...but it's so good!
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Dec 16 2007, 10:44 AM
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Hiding in the Iron Maiden at Borgin and Burkes
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Most of my books are in good, if not great, condition. I have to say that I take good care of my books, it is a pet peeve of mine when someone doesn't.
I do have to say that one of my HP books is falling apart, my HBP. From about page 20 to about page 119, there is gap and that part of the book is just together....I'm very sad but I live through it!
I have a book shelf where all of my books go. Either that or they go somewhere in my room, my book shelf is to bursting point. Except my HP books go on the top of my dresser so they can been seen from anywhere in the room! 
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anyway that's how strict I am when it comes to my books.
