The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Library => Topic started by: TG on June 01, 2007, 02:23:51 PM
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Being tight as well as poor I have been trying out www.readitswapit.co.uk (http://www.readitswapit.co.uk) for the last couple of months.
Off-loaded some old junk and got some quality reading matter in return, only postage fee's to be paid.
I reccomend it highly. happy088
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I like the look of that!!!!
Trouble is I can't bear to part with a book once I've got it. I hate using the library for that reason. I just love reading it, putting it on the shelves and thinking I'll read that again one day. Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. ::)
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Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. ::)
Yep. whacky115
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Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. ::)
Yep. whacky115
I know, I know .... about 30 metres of full book shelving and still many are stacked on the floor and in boxes. Plans are afoot for a further 6 metres of shelves. Postman is pissed off and thinks I have shares in Amazon.
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I know, I know .... about 30 metres of full book shelving and still many are stacked on the floor and in boxes. Plans are afoot for a further 6 metres of shelves. Postman is pissed off and thinks I have shares in Amazon.
A friend of mine has a similar thing but with CDs. A complete wall of one room, custom built shelving - probably 2 walls by now. All classical save a small section of Astor Piazolla. I think it took him years to move over from vinyl - (no, not the floor covering, smart @rses). Still, despite being confined to a wheelchair he seems happy as Larry and is doubtless still adding to his collection.
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Trouble is I can't bear to part with a book once I've got it. I hate using the library for that reason. I just love reading it, putting it on the shelves and thinking I'll read that again one day. Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. ::)
redface: I suffer from the same compulsion. I have been threatened that if I so much as look at another book, the whole lot goes? So what does that make me? sad24: Answers inside the cover of a book please?.. whistle:
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Same here. Mr Wench is begining to despair. Between books, teasets, buttons, wool and ribbon there isn't much space left! eeek:
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Ah .... Wenchy Your house begins to sound more like mine every day.
Mrs S teaches and, for reasons of her own but mainly associated with (a) money and (b) the fact she does not wish to teach little scrotes who do not wish to learn, she teaches Basic Skills using Arts and Crafts to mainly middle aged women. The house is awash with wool, paper, materials, glue, paint brushes etc etc. You name it she crafts it. I don't think there is a craft that she hasn't learned (self taught always) and then run courses on.
What with that and my books (mainly history and biogs), my research into family tree etc we can barely move for clutter AND we have three children who add to the heap of rubbish and stuff that spills everywhere.
I sometimes feel as if I live with:
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Ohhhh your house sounds like fun!! lol: Adopt me?
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Ohhhhh ~ no need to "legalize" things .... after all that might make the "rent" illegal. eyes:
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Good Grief !
Barman, something needs to be put in the beer and quick.
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Good Grief !
Barman, something needs to be put in the beer and quick.
Wenchy doesn't even drink the beer! eeek:
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So you have all signed up then?
Possibly not, as no-one has requested my copy of "sheep shearing for the deaf" by "anon" (published by F & G Stoat & nephew, Birkenhead 1928) that I could easilly sell on fleabay for 38p plus ?98 C&P.
I did PM you all abut this but now I will have to profit by a sale.
Peasants.
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Good Grief !
Barman, something needs to be put in the beer and quick.
Wenchy doesn't even drink the beer! eeek:
Perhaps she is snorting the powdered alcohol eeek:
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So you have all signed up then?
Possibly not, as no-one has requested my copy of "sheep shearing for the deaf" by "anon" (published by F & G Stoat & nephew, Birkenhead 1928) that I could easilly sell on fleabay for 38p plus ?98 C&P.
I did PM you all abut this but now I will have to profit by a sale.
Peasants.
Yes I signed up this afternoon ~ now the battle is on as to which books I am prepared to offer up. This is the hard part. cry:
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So you have all signed up then?
Possibly not, as no-one has requested my copy of "sheep shearing for the deaf" by "anon" (published by F & G Stoat & nephew, Birkenhead 1928) that I could easilly sell on fleabay for 38p plus ?98 C&P.
I did PM you all abut this but now I will have to profit by a sale.
Peasants.
Yes I signed up this afternoon ~ now the battle is on as to which books I am prepared to offer up. This is the hard part. cry:
No it aint. Just remember that the type of books you will be able to swap will be reflected from your own list of books.
I tried putting the wifes books up rather than mine but only got swap requests for similar material.
You will have to be strong. scared2:
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Ahhhh so for instance I can't swap chick lit for gardening manuals?
Rent Snoopy!! If you adopt me then I shall expect pocket money not to be paying you rent! ::)
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Rent Snoopy!!
Snoopy is a rent boy beagle? eeek:
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I like the look of that!!!!
Trouble is I can't bear to part with a book once I've got it. I hate using the library for that reason. I just love reading it, putting it on the shelves and thinking I'll read that again one day. Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. ::)
Agreed. I have never disposed of a a book in my life. Which is why I still possess a copy of Grapefruit bought when I was 16. Could it be worth something?
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The Yoko Ono one? If so then between ?40 - ?60 according to amazon.
No accounting for taste is there?
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Ahhhh so for instance I can't swap chick lit for gardening manuals?
Rent Snoopy!! If you adopt me then I shall expect pocket money not to be paying you rent! ::)
Errrr .... This was more what I had in mind:
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redface:
Mrs Snoopy would be a tad displeased I think. And might take her craft goods elsewhere! noooo:
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He may count that as a good trade Wenchy. eyes:
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He may count that as a good trade Wenchy. eyes:
I wouldn't. evil:
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So you insist on it being a threesome then?
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With the craft goods, the wool and me yes.
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shocked003
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With the craft goods, the wool and me yes.
I've spent all day decorating the spare room.
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With the craft goods, the wool and me yes.
I've spent all day decorating the spare room.
So it was wallpaper paste eh?
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scared:
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With the craft goods, the wool and me yes.
I've spent all day decorating the spare room.
So it was wallpaper paste eh?
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! redface:
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That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! redface:
What, the wallpaper? point:
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Right. Far be it from me to drag this thread back on topic but I have a word of warning about this swapping site thingy :
DON'T LET THE SPOUSE ON IT! MAKE HER/HIM GET THIER OWN EFFING ACCOUNT!
She swapped http://www.amazon.co.uk/Angel-Katie-Price/dp/0099497867/ref=pd_bowtega_1/202-7102639-5143040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181933103&sr=1-1 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Angel-Katie-Price/dp/0099497867/ref=pd_bowtega_1/202-7102639-5143040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181933103&sr=1-1) for my copy of http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Louis-XIV-Women-Life/dp/0297829971/ref=pd_bowtega_3/202-7102639-5143040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181933199&sr=1-3 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Louis-XIV-Women-Life/dp/0297829971/ref=pd_bowtega_3/202-7102639-5143040?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181933199&sr=1-3) (which was a pristine hardback copy rather than a poxy piss stained paperback I might add).
Pardon me for the long URL's but I dont know how to shorten them and cannot be arsed to find out how.
I am going to have to smite her.....
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And is Mrs TG a member ~ we could all join in the smiting ~ or is it to be of a more personal nature?