Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:48:22 -0500
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From: Elspeth Kovar <EKovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Too many books?
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To rather scary things to consider when collecting books:

http://tinyurl.com/z2ghv

"Booked Solid
Some Readers' Cherished Collections Have Nowhere to Grow

By Annie Groer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 23, 2006; Page H01

Law librarian Rick Ramponi's collection of 3,000 regional cookbooks
--including "Talk About Good" from the Lafayette, La., Junior League and
"Shalom on the Range," which celebrates southwestern Jewish cuisine -- was
manageable while he lived in a large house in Kalorama.

But when he moved to a one-bedroom Dupont Circle apartment with a partner
who collects large art and architecture books, Ramponi had to exile those
cherished culinary texts to a pair of rented storage units several blocks
away. . ."

and

http://tinyurl.com/mpla6

"Sorted And Sort of . . .

By Marie Arana and Jonathan Yardley
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, March 23, 2006; Page H05

We are two book people -- she, the editor of Book World; he, The Post's
book critic -- who agree on many marital matters but almost totally
disagree on the most important thing of all: how to arrange our books."