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Arcanist Lupus
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Cleaning the bookshelves

This weekend I kicked off a bookshelf cleaning in my house.  We're not done yet - our house has three bedrooms, which contain between them 12 5 shelf IKEA book cases, and there are 5 longer standalone bookshelves, as well as miscellaneous other spots where books are hiding.  

 

But so far, we have learned that we have 5 copies of Treasure Island, 2 copies of Robinson Crusoe, 2 copies of The Two Towers (only one of the other LotR books), 2 Foundation's Edge, 2 The Secret of Platform 13, 2 Trinity (by Leon Uris), 2 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, 4 copies of Call of the Wild (7 if you count it's presence in short story collections, including 2 Tales of the North), 2 copies of Jonathan Livingston Seagull of all things and probably other duplicates that we haven't found yet.


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You must've really liked Treaure Island. 


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Maybe we should start calling you Arrrrrcanist Lupus!

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I've got 5 versions of The Three Musketeers lying about the house.  One plain paperback for reading, an annotated edition, an illustrated edition, a graphic novel adaptation, and a vintage copy that part of a dumas set. 


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When they're all distinct versions having multiple copies isn't so strange.  We have at least 4 copies of Alice in Wonderland - a reading copy, a copy in the complete works of Lewis Carol, the Annotated Alice, and More Annotated Alice.


"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal