I keep 'em all as well. Problem is, having lost one pretty sizable book collection in the mid-'80s as a result of divorce (that signed first-edition hc of Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang that I found for maybe $5 in an Arizona used bookstore is never coming back, is it? And probably that first-edition library hc of Phil Dick's Time Out of Joint isn't, either), fairly often I confuse what I owned then with what I own now ... so either I pass up something I "need" & regret it, or buy a 2nd (or 3rd, or even 4th ...) copy & also regret it.

Last Edited By: gef the talking mongoose Nov 10 10 1:03 PM. Edited 2 times.