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.
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
You must've really liked Treaure Island.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Maybe we should start calling you Arrrrrcanist Lupus!
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.
Time for some scientific action!
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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