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About meI'm a 27-year-old graduate student in social psychology. I do a lot of reading for my program and job, and have acquired a lot of textbooks. Of course, I love reading in general, and probably spend at least half of my slave-wage adjunct-faculty salary on books. I feel so at home in bookstores and libraries. I always make fun of the people who come to Chicago on the weekends to shop and end up going to stores they have everywhere, but whenever I'm in a new town, I always end up doing the same thing with bookstores. I particularly adore used book shops - you can find some of the coolest stuff in there, and when you're poor like me, they can be such a lifesaver! On my recent trip to New York, one of the best places I went was Strand, a huge used book store in Greenwich Village!

About my libraryStill a work in progress, I have a lot of textbooks (I don't think I sold a single one back from my college days, and now that I'm teaching, I've been getting a lot of them free from textbook companies - my favorite thing about teaching), non-fiction books for my thesis and/or dissertation and just for pleasure, some signed books from authors I've met at Borders and Printers Row, manga (my addiction :D), and lots of fiction, as well as some music from choir (the Apollo Chorus of Chicago). My apartment is pretty small, so the majority of my books are still at my parents' house. These are the books tagged "Kansas City". With each trip back, I'm trying to add them to my catalog - that way if I'm looking for a book I own, I'll know right away if it's with me in Chicago, or at my parents' house. The books marked "Unread" are ones I bought and haven't gotten around to reading. "Partially Read" is a more messy category; I may have read a few pages and put it down, or it may be a book I'm currently reading, etc. etc. I don't like so much error in measurement (I am a psychologist after all) but whatever. I hope to really cut down on the number of books tagged as unread or partially read sometime.

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