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Thread ID: 150676	2022-05-16 10:50:00	Inventory	piroska (17583)	PC World Chat

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1486311	2022-05-16 10:50:00	So we're insured...but I didn't have a list of my books. These are paper, not ebooks. I have a few of those but not many at all. So if there was a fire, would I remember every title, probably not...some anthologies, some out of print, some reference books, non fiction etc. So finally, I now have a backed up list. Took me ages. And I don't have many 350....friend of mine had 6000 before he swapped most for ebooks.....	piroska (17583)
1486312	2022-05-16 19:15:00	Very wise. Also do it for any CD/DVD collection. Nothing worse than trying to remember them all in the event of a fire and trying to prove what you had. Insurance Companies can be quite sceptical of such claims. A photo of you library if it is in shelves would also be helpful just to prove you did have a goodly collection and you weren't just making it up.	Bryan (147)
1486313	2022-05-16 19:27:00	My CD collection is also ripped to my laptop and two other backups. Ripped as .flac so not too much of a hardship if I lost them all.	gary67 (56)
1486314	2022-05-16 21:18:00	A photo of you library if it is in shelves would also be helpful just to prove you did have a goodly collection and you weren't just making it up. Perhaps. I doubt they'd think I went to the trouble of picking titles most would never have heard of though, not not considered valuable or even popular....	piroska (17583)
1486315	2022-05-16 21:54:00	And I don't have many 350....friend of mine had 6000 before he swapped most for ebooks..... how many of those will you actually re-read ? I made the hard choice of throwing most of mine into the recycling , rather than just have them sitting on a shelf for the rest of my life , never to be read again . Its not easy throwing out books , given what they cost, especially hardbacks .	1101 (13337)
1486316	2022-05-16 22:26:00	Perhaps. I doubt they'd think I went to the trouble of picking titles most would never have heard of though, not not considered valuable or even popular.... Believe me. I worked for 55 years in the industry and I know how bloody minded they can be.	Bryan (147)
1486317	2022-05-17 03:43:00	how many of those will you actually re-read ? . All of them, all the time . They are the reread ones . None have never been read . Heaps of times, some have had to be replaced because they fell apart . That I can anyway, one or two are very hard to get now and look rather repaired as a result . I've read way more than that . That's why I have them . I read a book . . . (or occasionally DNF) . . . . and then read it again, later . If it passes that, I keep it . If not I take it to the 2nd hand bookshop and try, usually failing these days, to find another . And a long time before, went to libraries, most of them, ran out of what they had and found the second hand shops . Went round them and found the one in Ponsonby . After a while she let me out back where there was room stuffed floor to ceiling full of SF . I read from A to Z . I used to take most back . . I was forced to read new ones then . I owned a bookshop once, new and used , that's when I started keeping my favorites . So yes it's not many . . . that friend of mine is the same . Except he has way more . . . did when his were paper too . He kept the signed and limited edition stuff mostly and some out of print, the rest he bought as ebooks . But he's richer than me too . Can't imagine not having a book . Movies, music, TV I can live without, books never .	piroska (17583)
1486318	2022-05-17 03:52:00	en.wikipedia.org There wouldn't be a lot I haven't read. And Fantasy, well I used to read a fair bit...but decided I wasn't into it....nowadays there are a few authors and a few I own, it still is mainly SF though. A few mainstream, a few classics, and of course non fiction sometimes. 11319 Crap pic but whatever.	piroska (17583)
1486319	2022-05-17 06:17:00	Good girl. That picture might help you one day.	Bryan (147)
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