From: noone@nowhere.com   
      
   On 8/12/25 10:44, Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-02, James Nicoll  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Things I Wish I'd Known When Starting a Book Collection   
   >   
   > I think the typical issue is that people don't start out to make a   
   > collection.  It sneaks up on you.  You buy books or calculators or   
   > whatever and suddenly, OMG, they are everywhere, I'm caught in   
   > Stanisław Lem's "Ciemność i pleśń", what do I do now?   
      
   The television show, "Hoarders" (or something similar), shows the   
   results of obsessive people who are not obsessive about WHAT they   
   collect and when they are threatened with downsizing their collections,   
   become extremely agitated because of the emotional attachment they have   
   to their variety of possessions. Is book collecting any different or   
   just another obsessive compulsive disorder?   
      
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