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Member: safelykept44689

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Favorite authorsAntonia Fraser, Susan Howatch (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAlibris, Better World Books

Favorite librariesProject Gutenberg, Scott County Public Library

About meThe picture is of my grandfather, sometime in the late 30's or 40's.

About my libraryI really started buying books in the late 80's. My library was enhanced in the 1990's by the Kenton County Public Library Friends of the Library bag sale that used to be held at Florence Mall ($5 for everything you could fit in a paper grocery bag - as long as it wasn't completely falling out, you could put it in there). One year my mom and I ended up with so many bags we ended up buying a luggage cart to take them to the car with. Those were the days!! Now my book buying haunts are online bookstores - for new books, bookcloseouts.com and for used books alibris.com and betterworldbooks.com (they're awesome!! - they help world literacy, rescue books from the landfill, and got my books to me in TWO business days - they rock). Right now, I'm out of shelf space, so have several precarious piles of books in the bedroom. Oh, and my new toy the Kindle, but am aggravated by the amount of books that are MORE than $9.99 (usually the ones I want). But you can get classics (i.e. books in the public domain) for free at gutenberg.org or munseys.com (both have books already in mobi format for Kindle).

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Member sinceJun 20, 2009

Currently readingVanity Fair (The Modern Library 131.3) by William Makepeace Thackeray