Comments on: In which I reveal the obsessive side of my nature https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/ before I read the middle Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:54:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Ruby https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14107 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:54:17 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14107 My friend is like that. It’s lovely for me because I get all her books that don’t match!

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14106 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:41:44 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14106 In reply to Laura.

Hahaha, there is no such thing as late validation. Validation is always glorious. In all seriousness, though, it’s going to be a terrible mess if I ever have a disposable income. There will be an insane amount of purchasing of matchy matchy copies of books I already own.

]]> By: Laura https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14105 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:41:02 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14105 Oh my GOSH I am the same way too! Sorry if this post is a smidge later than the others, but I just discovered your blog a few minutes ago and was catching up.

I am currently in the middle of getting all of John Bellairs’ book series after I picked one up at the library on a whim and remembered how much I LOVED his books. Now I’m stalking them all on PaperbackSwap, trying to get the same editions I remember reading as a child. You know, the ones with drawings by Edward Gorey? I just got 2 this past week and they have newer covers. Ugh! You know what that means, right? It means that tomorrow after work I’ll stop by the nearest Half Price to scrounge through the kiddie lit section, and when they don’t have what I need, I’ll go on to the next 4 or 5 used bookstores near it, and when there is that one annoying one left that I need to complete, I’ll go Goodwill stalking like a psychopath until I have them all in my hot little OCD hands.

Anyway… the whole point of this mini-rant is that I have repurchased more books than I care to admit to make sure all my lovely copies match up. And, like Kim said a couple of posts above, I have run into SO MANY great British copies of books I already own that I end up reselling/PBS’ing the American copies and ordering them from Amazon UK instead.

Thank you, all you wonderful fellow OCD’ers out there, for helping me feel like I’m not the only one!!!

]]> By: Thomas https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14104 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:39:12 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14104 Matching editions can be nice to have. And there is a part of my OCD personality that agrees with you. One way to keep the matching demons away is to never buy more than one volume of any particular edition. That way the pattern is lovely randomness instead of 4 of one edition and then one or two in some other(s).

Or maybe, with the Rushdie you could come up with some logical reason why the two voumes in a different edition are supposed to be in a different edition. Chronology? Theme?

]]> By: anna https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14103 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:07:33 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14103 In reply to Jenny.

um.

I got Indigo’s Star on paperbackswap when I lost my paperback in the move up here. And I got Permanent Rose in the place in NYC that is a huginormous bookstore, called something beginning with S. Which is also the place where I got Midnight is a Place and got you that copy of Jane Eyre.

]]> By: Kim (Sophisticated Dorkiness) https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14102 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:17:41 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14102 I like matching editions too, it’s a little obsessive. A few years ago I found British editions of both Northern Lights (The Golden Compass) and The Subtle Knife at Half Priced Books. I didn’t realize they were British, just that the covers were beautiful and matched and I had to have them (even though I had both of those books in mismatched paperbacks). When I realized they were British, I was so annoyed at the thought of having the third book, The Amber Spyglass, not match that I bought a version from the UK Amazon and had it shipped over. That totally negated any savings from buying the first two at half price, but now I have a three set that matches and sits next to my other books and gloats. Sooo, you’re not alone 🙂

]]> By: Lori L https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14101 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:39:46 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14101 In a perfect world I would love, love, love to have all matching editions of favorite authors but it’s never going to happen. Although I understand and sympathize with you, I have to control that urge in myself. But, if I suddenly become wealthy….

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14100 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:39:30 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14100 In reply to Memory.

Me too, but I feel guilty about it. I need to start thinking more seriously before I buy books on a whim. 🙂

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14099 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:32:35 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14099 In reply to Eva.

For some reason I’ve been expecting not to care too much for Shalimar the Clown – don’t know why! I thought the same about The Satanic Verses, and ended up really loving it. Fury wasn’t my favorite, though, and I wasn’t in love with Shame either.

]]> By: Jenny https://readingtheend.com/2009/10/10/in-which-i-reveal-the-obsessive-side-of-my-nature/#comment-14098 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:29:52 +0000 http://readingtheend.com/?p=1823#comment-14098 In reply to anna.

You have hardbacks? Where did you get them all from?

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