Comments on: Go on, have a read, it won’t do you any harm

By: aj@lecraic

aj@lecraic — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:25:22 +0000

Must check out that Nick Hornby book then, thanks Paul.

@Rosie I should do more browsing in charity shops, maybe I wouldn’t get the buyers remorse then.

@John That makes sense. I can finally stop that quote gnawing away at me!

@Paul I’ve been a book lover since I was a toddler. I had this blue book I called my “Billy Doran” book. It was just a book about electronics of my dads, and while most kids had a teddy bear to go to bed with, I wouldn’t go to bed without my little blue book. I would love to own a newsagents and bookshop. A chance to buy one came up some years ago and the owners wanted me to buy it, but unfortunately I didn’t half 500k to spare at the time

By: Paul Groves

Paul Groves — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:14:08 +0000

I hope you never kick your addiction.
There is nothing better than holding a book in your hands and getting completely lost in the words – well, obviously there are one or two better things but hopefully you get my drift.

One of the few drawbacks I’ve found about mainly working from home these days is that I don’t have a 45-minute train journey to and from the newsroom to immerse myself in a book. I’m not reading as much as I want these days.
I’m doing plenty of blog reading, but not nearly enough book reading.

We make use of charity shops to buy and offload books. But I also used to leave copies of books I enjoyed on the train with a note for whoever found it to read it themselves or pass on to someone they know might like it.

You might find this post on books vs blogging interesting.
http://tinyurl.com/5htl6q

By: John B

John B — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:01:29 +0000

That Einstein quote only seems to make sense in the context of scientific research and the creation of a genuinely original thought.

By: Rosie

Rosie — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:59:40 +0000

i’ve latched onto buying books in charity shops as a guilt-free form of retail therapy – it makes for an interesting book collection. a recent visitor asked who owned all the books in the flat, then asked if i actually owned all the books, like ever.

i do not, sir, but i’m working on it.

By: paul

paul — Sun, 25 May 2008 20:13:02 +0000

i know how you feel. I blame the book covers myself. Nick Hornby has a book about book buying. Also find the newly discovered blogging has damaged my book reading (although not my book buying).