And, why do we do this to ourselves?
I have two copies of:
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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Small Island by Andrea Levy
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Thinking Clearly by Jill Leblanc
These are due to integration between my partner's books and my own.
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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
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No Logo by Naomi Klein
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Island by Aldous Huxley
These are because they are some of my favourite books and, except for No Logo, I have one hardcover and one softcover edition.
I'd have to look, but I'm pretty sure I have 3 sets of the Lord of the Rings?
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Used to be 4, I had a set of crappy paperbacks and wanted something nicer, so I bought the "Millennium Edition":
Which LOOKS great, but the paper is EVEN WORSE than the crappy paperbacks.
For years I looked around for the red hardback edition which was out of print. One would pop up every now and then, but would be damaged or written in or something.
https://ebay.io/m/FgPQa9
Finally scored a clean copy of that, donated the crappy paperbacks to my little free library, kept the Millennium Edition because it is so very, very, pretty.
And then they came out with an illustrated edition with Tolkien's own illustrations...
Fine.
...i have an embarassing quantity of editions of tolkien's books, and i keep finding new ones i want to pick up...