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Mike Dickison
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Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus by Brooks Haxton
Last Letters from Hav by Jan Morris
Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco
An Essay on Typography by Eric Gill
God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion by Christopher Hitchens
How to Cook Everything (Simple Recipes for Great Food) by Mark Bittman
The Pump House Gang by Tom Wolfe
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CollectionsYour library (825), To read (139), All collections (825)
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TagsStorageUSA (475), recipes (49), plays (35), food writing (24), typography (14), Darwiniana (5), ukulele (5), food science (4) — see all tags
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About meI studied giant flightless birds at Duke for my PhD, and teach digital learning skills at the University of Canterbury. I like the ukulele.
About my libraryMy books are pretty much split between modern fiction, design/typography, very random non-fiction, and cooking. Currently 475 of them are packed into exactly fifteen 10" x 12" x 15" boxes, each weighing between 35 and 40 pounds. That's 15.6 cubic feet, and about 560 pounds (or 250 kg) of books total. So an average book of mine weighs 1 lb 2 oz. Who knew?
They're all stashed in unit L107 in the Public Storage Facility on East Club Blvd, Durham, NC, though this is really more for my information than yours. It's not an invitation to go swipe them. Good luck with that. Also even if you succeed you'll only be saddled with 560 lbs of used books -- hardly worth going to jail for (though you'll have plenty to read while you're inside, I guess).
Homepagehttp://www.giantflightlessbirds.com
Real nameMike
LocationChristchurch, New Zealand
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Account typepublic, lifetime
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Member sinceAug 16, 2006
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posted by Widsith at 2:28 pm (EST) on Sep 16, 2009
We share a seriously odd group of books, so I shall watch your library with great interest.
What did you think of "As Meat Loves Salt"?
Cheers,
Joanna
posted by joannasephine at 10:04 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2008