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I'm down to about 60 or so books, with ten or twelve I'd part with, mostly non-aviation history of one sort or the other.
I'm not sure you can visit the forum any more. Such a small number of books counts as a criminal offence in certain dark and murky corners of this place.
Just look at some of the model stashes. Many of us have the same "problem" with books.
When I lived in SoCal, I had upwards of 800 books, mostly history with some science and a smattering of fiction thrown in. This included a complete set of Morison's The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and a complete first-printing of Churchill's WWII memoirs. All were read, sometimes several times.
When I returned to Texas about ten years ago, I had to downsize, so I donated a few hundred to the county library, and the keepers I stored in my ex's garage. She, unfortunately, had a crummy garage and they got mold and rat-piss on them, and after about a year she got rid of them and only then told me. Hmph. I knew I left her for a reason.
Anyway, the books I currently own have been bought at local thrift-stores/used book stores, and more recently online from recommendations here. My small mobile home just doesn't have much storage space, and myprob-- er, hobby -- is mainly guitars, so I've got four guitars and three amplifiers, along with a couple of speaker cabs, taking up real estate.
You can see my small bookshelf on the right of this pic of my main rig:
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I want to put that post in a "Things that made you sad today" thread. So sorry you had to go through all that trauma, mate. Also understand the question of priorities.
Along the lines of the thread
I'll Trade U 4 That thread
, but with books. Have a book you don't want anymore, know you're not gonna read again or somehow ended up with two copies? Maybe you can swap it for a book someone else finds surplus to their needs. I imagine listing what you want to swap and what you wouldn't mind getting in return. My understanding is that this would be OK as money doesn't change hands. Anyway, I'll kick it off:
What I have for trade:
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What I wouldn't mind getting in return:
Pretty much any book from the Christopher Shores/Grub Street Publishing series except "Fledgling Eagles" or IIRC "Airwar over Burma", the third book in the above series.
So with any luck us bibliophiles can expand our libraries with only shipping cost. Let's see how it goes.
I have Dust Clouds in the Middle East that I just finished about two months ago, and I would be willing to do a swap.