My collection is reasonably well organized these days, but I do have this annoying habit of buying books I already have a copy of. Sometimes it's understandable, like a new cover throwing me off, but sometimes there's just no excuse. Several years ago I found a copy of a True Crime book I'd been wanting for a while. After looking it over, I went to put it on the shelf and found another copy already there. To this day I don't remember when or where I bought the first one.
Ouch That happens to me too all the time.
Intelligence and purity.

My collection is reasonably well organized these days, but I do have this annoying habit of buying books I already have a copy of. Sometimes it's understandable, like a new cover throwing me off, but sometimes there's just no excuse. Several years ago I found a copy of a True Crime book I'd been wanting for a while. After looking it over, I went to put it on the shelf and found another copy already there. To this day I don't remember when or where I bought the first one.

It's all like some bad movie.

Is your collection well-organized, or might you have half a bushel of books that you have totally forgotten acquiring?
It is reasonably well-organized, but I live in a small condo and don't have much storage space. Two boxes of paperbacks in the closet is it for books not already in bookshelves. My boxes of CDs are already under the bed.
Trump is Putin's bitch.

Usually the "where" is easy enough; I buy mostly used hardcovers from only two or three places. But the "why" is often a mystery when I discover an old purchase. Did I really think I might read that one?
SPEED
Don't mistake my silence for weakness. Nobody plans murders out loud.

Guilty! I seem to buy more books than what I have the time to read, or even put into book shelves. So I have no idea when or where I bought many of my books.
Intelligence and purity.

Maybe you bought the books while in a fugue state?
No, I avoid Classical when book buying. I prefer early Rock & Roll or Big Band music for it.

It's all like some bad movie.

No; I buy guns when I'm in a fugue state.

• Lord, have mercy on a country boy

Maybe you bought the books while in a fugue state?

I don't make much; just enough for myself, the wife and kids, and a pound or two to sell at the local halfway houses on the weekends.

• Lord, have mercy on a country boy

I've been doing some cleanup around my meth lab
Forget about the books. Tell me more about that. Is it just a hobby or you're a pro?
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