It's A Wrap

Let's see. Just last week we've managed to adopt 4 more book, two Miss Marples from Pay Less and two other impulse buys from Kinokuniya. It's always a pleasant surprise to find any Agatha Christies in Pay Less, whatmore if there are Miss Marple titles that we have yet to add to our collection. Only...our books are with lad and njapf at the moment so we can't remember which ones we already have!

Yes, terrible memory. We've read most of her books earlier on when we had access to the school library, so when we were browsing the collection at Pay Less it's all we could do to rack our brains wondering if we actually owned it or just read it before.

Anyways. We belong to the category of people who wraps their books and doesn't open the book fully to avoid creases. However, we don't immediately wrap our books after purchase - we'll let it pile up till we've a nice stack of 5-10 books, then we'll bring out the embossed book wrapping and wrapping gear. Also, of late as a measure of courtesy (and if the timing's right) we'll wrap any book that we've borrowed (so long as they don't mind).

Now that we've 4 books more, we should have enough to make it worth the effort to start wrapping. Checking the bookshelf for any others that need wrapping, we suddenly come across a pile of Penguin Classics that haven't been wrapped. Oh, and the Belgariad series - we've never bothered wrapping them before as we thought of them as, "Oh, buy from Pay Less one what..." except that they've tahan for so long without falling to tatters yet we might as well do what little we can to increase their longevity.

It's break time now and we've...11 more books to go.

Great. Now as we write this we just remembered there's still the 2 volumes of Les Miserables that we'd picked up from Oxfam as well. And the Prelude to Dune series. Ah well, will leave them for the next batch.