Paul McCain (AKA Cyberbrethren) tagged his blog readers with this MEME for booklovers. Here's my response. Consider yourself tagged...
1. To mark your page you: use a bookmark, bend the page corner, leave the book open face down?
I almost always use a bookmark. I have a collection of them that my wife made for me that I rotate. But my favorite bookmark was hand-sewn in Croatia by this little old lady I met in a village while travelling. I'm against page bending!
2. Do you lend your books?
Ugh! Yes, but I must admit that I don't like to. I now have a list in my library so I can keep track, because I've lost my fair share throughout the years.
3. You find an interesting passage: you writing your books or no writing!
I write all over. Lately, I've been using the highlighter that comes with post-it flags. In bigger works that I'm sourcing for a paper or future manuscript I use a color code of flags.
4. Dust jackets - leave it on or take it off.
I usually will take them off while reading, but I put them back on after they're back on the shelf. I purchase a lot of old books and they just preserve longer with the jacket.
5. Hard cover, paperback, skip it and get the audio book?
For anything over 300 pages, a non-fiction work that I will use again and again, or an older work I prefer hardback. For fiction or a once only read I prefer softback. I've never listened to an audio book, but my mother absolutely loves them.
6. Do you shelve your books by suject, author, or size and color of the book?
I shelve by suject, and if I have several by the same author, I will keep their works together. If I run out of shelf space, which I have with my theology and history sections, I stack them on top or wherever I can find room.
7. Buy it or borrow it from the library later?
BUY!!!! Unless I'm just citing it for a paper I almost always want to purchase it. I usually start with Advanced Book Exchange where the shipping usually costs more than the book price, then I look at Amazon used before looking at the new price. Additionally, I spend a lot of time perusing used book stores. We have a couple jems in San Diego and you never know what you might find.
8. Do you put your name on your books - scribble, stamp, or book plate?
I have a "Thomas Library" stamp I've had for about 15 years.
9. Most of the books your own are rare and out of print or recent publications?
50/50. I try to stay current in NT studies, Biblical Theology, and Dogmatics but who has the time or money at the rate of publishing these days? But most of my interest lays in the areas of early Christian doctrinal development (history), Lutheran Dogmatics, and the history of preaching so much of my library is out of print.
10. Page edges - deckled or straight?
STRAIGHT! I can't stand it otherwise.
11. How many books do you read at one time?
This is a tough one. If I wasn't in a grad program right now I would probably have 4-5 going. I'm a little ADD so I like variety and typically have a theological book, biography or historical book, current biblical studies work, something related to church or missions and at least one novel going at a time. But since I'm in school right now I'm probably working on about 10-12 at a time, but I must admit I'm glossing a few of them rather than fully digesting them.
12. Be honest, ever tear a page from a book?
Heavens no! That's sacrilege.
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