Once we're definitely settled in somewhere, I'm planning on building up another book collection. I've always liked checking used book stores for whatever cool random old books I can find. It's a nice cheap way to build a pretty iconoclastic collection.

My only real complaint with Kindle and other e-readers is kids can't just pick up a book in the house and check it out.

Undisciplined

I had a similar upbringing. We had books all over the house. Maybe that why I find it hard to go completely digital.

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Book Collectors?

By nature I'm a book collector, but we've made several significant moves over the past decade and most of our books did not make it.

I really like the aesthetics of having books around. When I was a kid, my dad had all kinds of cool science books that I could try to read way before I was ready. For example, I started reading A Brief History of Time when I was seven, but I didn't finish the first chapter until about five years later. 