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 How Books Procreate

Oh how I wish they could come up with a pill for this. Why? Well contrary to common sense (no pun intended, you’ll see) I have done something that is both cool and not so cool.
In my focus to gather material on Tom Paine to read and get to know this forgotten Founding Father, [...]

A New Subject- Thomas Paine

A part of my bibliomania concerns how I handle subjects that I want to read about. This isn’t about collecting books. It is about collecting knowledge. That was one thing I could always remember since I was a wee small child. I always wanted to know everything I [...]

On the differences of Collecting and Accumulating, Part 3

The core of my book collecting is Horror fiction. Though I collect (not to much extent other than to read) science, science fiction, and history I do not search for fine editions of those books. Horror became the core of my collection by being the one genre, other than science fiction, that I [...]