I. Fucking. Hate. My. Brain.

[neadods]

So, things have thawed enough (and I have enough amassed) that I scoot up to The Book Thing. And it was, for a Holmesian, just about the Ultimate Score: gorgeous, almost-new copies of the Complete, the Illustrated, Arthur and George, and even both short story volumes of the Klinger Annotated!

I scooped up everything, with an eye to either giving it out at Tin Box or 221B Con or GridlockDC. (Possibly Gridlock, come to think of it; I don't think they have a deal with the Beacon Society.)

But damned if for some stupid reason my brain is all "But you can't have this beautiful version of the all-in-one Complete! You've got perfectly good copies to write and scribble in that you're 'allowed' to mark up because they're falling apart."

Fnarg. If I don't keep that all-in-one, it's going to be because it's the size of a boat anchor and not my "worthiness."

Comments

[themis1.livejournal.com]

Keep it. I grant permission!

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Tell that lobe of your brain to take a hike. I have several copies of a few books so that I can mark and annotate one and keep the other clean, including the Canon. They serve different purposes.

I suspect that, as in so many of us, that "inner voice" is your mom. You're still allowed, nay in this case encouraged, to tell it to take a hike.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I kind of like the idea of having the mark copy and the non-mark copy. That said, in the case of Austen and Doyle, I'm having to put myself on a strict limit of no more than 4 copies of a book.

5 in a pinch.