- May 2023
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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association copies — books once owned or annotated by the authors
An association copy is a copy of a book which belonged to the author or someone connected to them or a copy of a book that once belonged to someone particularly associated with its contents, often annotated.
I've got association copies of some information theory texts...
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- Mar 2023
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Lisa Jacobs, the founder and chief executive of Imagine It Done, a home organization service in New York City, said that out of hundreds of projects in the past few years, she can recall only three requests to organize books. In one of those examples, the arranged books were treated as a backdrop — to be admired, but not read. “The clientele that has collected books through the years are not as numerous for us,” she said.
Any book collector worth their salt will already have in mind the way they want their collection arranged. Only someone who wants to use it as wallpaper would have a service arrange it.
I wonder what the other two cases were?
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- Aug 2022
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www.amazon.com www.amazon.com
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David Quammen on Books
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.<br /> —David Quammen (1948 ― ), science, nature, and travel writer in The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
Syndication link: - https://boffosocko.com/2016/08/03/intellectual-wallpaper/
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- Jun 2022
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www.goodreads.com www.goodreads.com
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“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” ― John Waters
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