[stylist] Collecting Books

[Henrietta Brewer]

OH, Hi, LInda,
It has been so many years since I could read an actual book. I think I was in eighth grade. Then they were large print. but the books i have purchased since then would probably pay for a college education. Well, maybe a couple years. lol 

I love my book shelf. I love the feel. You are right, the heft and smell are wonderful. I love to sit in the library and just enjoy. There is always the hope someone you love will want to read your books. Then you can share them with a special meaning. 

Don't feel bad about buying books. But I will say, we need to keep this in check. If we spend so much on print books that we can't afford things that would help us as people who are blind we might need help. lol 

When the Grand Kids were young, I would check books out of Grandma's library. No, I rarely saw them returned but I knew where they were. 
Henrietta
On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Lynda Lambert wrote:

> This morning, i was checking out some books for sale on www.amazon.com and I ordered a few. I ordered books by Irene McKinney, a WV poet who passed last week. I ordered the new Dorianne Laux book; and a couple of Robert Bly books.  After I ordered them, I began to think about WHY I still order actual books for my collection. I cannot read them, of course. There is something in me, still, that needs to hold a book in my hands, feel it's heft, and it's smell, and put it on my book shelf in alpahabetical order.  Does anyone else here do this?  I am thinking that when my box of new books arrives, my husband must surely wonder why a blind person still buys books she can never read. He has never said anything about it, but he HAS to be curious. I am curious myself.
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