"Zarmina's World" -- Astronomer's Zeroing in On Habitable Extrasolars

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Do you just use all of your friends once and then cast them aside?

Hell, I couldn't stop myself from rereading while packing (and unpacking) books.

Please. A book is a physical item. I love the ideas in it, and they are represented elsewhere just as effectively (i.e. the next library). It's not like I close my dick between the pages, lube it up, and jack off with it. It's just a freakin book!

I own one shelf of books. About half of it is a nice bound editions of the core Tolkien books, and half are various paperbacks I got on eBay because no member library had it and it was cheaper that way. I'm thinking of getting rid of those that are gifts. Otherwise, I consider large numbers of books to be wasteful and self-indulgent. Then again, so are many features of American life.

I'll gladly own up to being very odd, but the people going harglebargle books are for libraries why would you read an atom thrice are pretty much on par with the book burners; I buy books because I intend to return to the work, there's just no fucking way I'll get everything on the first go, be it a fiction novel or a president's biography. A good book is one that invites one back.

Agreed, a good book invites you back. I'm guessing that this special case you talk about is unusual, though.

I will add that a book in the library can invite you back, as long as you don't take notes in it.

I respect that and will reconsider aspects of my entire life. Briefly. Then go back to whatever bad habbits I've acquired in decades of bumbling.

Oh no no, I just meant that your commute is wasted driving. I do a lot of productive reading on the bus or trains. Of course public transportation is SOCIALISM HURGLE AUGH and unpossible in Murika :/

True enough. I got all of my qualifying exam studying done on buses in Seattle (except of course the paper photocopying and list compiling.)

A wrinkle: I no longer take transit for fear of contagion. Any cold or flu I get is going to last twice as long now, and I'm careful where I put my hands. Taking the bus is like shaking hands wit a hundred people. Bums me out, though.