On Compulsion

And just like the tumblers in a lock events occur that make me purchase more books.
I was contemplating placing an order with Neil over at Clarkesworld Books since he is closing up shop and he needs to get his inventory moved. Who am I to not help the guy out.
This order [...]

On How Collectors Save the Written Word

    A few posts ago I spoke of On the differences on Collecting and Reading. The last line of that post “Up next I’ll take a look at the collector and how he does a service to preserving books and culture.” reminded me that I wanted to write about how collectors preserve the written word [...]

On the Idea of Speculation

As It Pertains to Money and As It Pertains to Longevity in Literature and Collections.
A certain idea has been running through my head the past few days pertaining to the speculation of the price of a specific book or edition and whether it is some how immoral to speculate on [...]