Tuesday Thingers...or how Library Thing saved my life.

It's Tuesday, so let's see what other feature of Library Thing there is that I am not familiar with! Today's question, via The Boston Bibliophile is
Work multiples. Do you own multiple copies of any books? Which ones? Why? Can you share your list?

Do I?...why yes I do have a few. Several of them, like Dante's Divine Comedy, are part of a partial set of 1909 Harvard Classics that were my grandfather's. But to tell you the truth, I have never read those copies. The covers are a little fragile, so when I have wanted to read a book that I might have in that edition, I just bought another copy. The same is true of a partial set of Dickens that were once his. So, I have some dups there as well. I mean, you NEED several copies of A Christmas Carol...right?

Then there are a few listed that are a mistake. I mean LT's mistake not mine, which we will discuss in a moment. I notice that they list Part 1 and Part 2 of a few books, like Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend from the above mentioned Dickens set, as duplicates, which they are not. I will have to see about fixing that.

Then there are another set of books that I intended to buy two copies of. On occasion, I might have bought a paperback copy of a book and then wanted to have a 'nicer' copy because I liked the book so much. I admit it...I have a 'thing' about owning nice hardcover editions of some books. Take Lord of the Rings..I have the original paperback set that I bought and first read when I was a teenager. But Lord of the Rings is such a great book..or books...that they deserved better. So for years, I eyed the lovely Easton Press editions. Beautiful leather covers, acid free paper, gold edged pages...and one day I overcame my cheapness and bought them. But I still have an attachment to the old paperbacks...

And then there is the third group...happily a small group. They are the mistakes. They are the reason I first joined LT. They are the reason that I love LT.
Brideshead Revisted is my worse example. See, it is a book that I have always meant to read but have not yet. It is in the pile next to the TBR pile. So, one day I was reading an online discussion about Brideshead and thought "Hmmm..I should buy a copy of that!" So off I went to a bookstore...always a fun journey...and bought a very nice hardcover copy...came home to put it on my shelf...only to realize I already owned the exact same edition already!!
My books were out of control! I had no organization, no way of knowing what I owned. And then Library Thing came to my rescue and we have lived happily ever after since...

Ok, I am a book addict. I admit it. ;-)