h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I've always bought them in paperback, goin' way back to the C.Of Money many moons ago. So I need the rest to match. Anyway, they fit on me bookshelf so much better.
O'course, when I worked in a bookshop, that didn't stop me reading 'em as they came out - sneaking them off the shelf, and reading them over a few successive lunchtimes, before sneakin'em back, Mwah Hah, Mwah Hah, Mwah Hah Hah...sorry, don't know what came over me there, I'll take a sip of .

I bought all paperbacks up until Jingo, an it's hardback from there onwards. Except that I bought Maskerade a little late, and found a hardback copy going cheap.


Geggs

I have random ones in hardback and paperback I buy hardback if I can, paperback otherwise

We have all paperback up till Fifth Elephant, and hard from FE on...

1st edition hardback from Thief of Time on, 3rd edition hardback for Hogfather, and all the rest in paperback.

One thing that annoys me though are the childrens novels. I was still only collecting the main series when TAMAHER came out in hardback, so I was forced to get it a year later in paperback. But I collect all the subsequent childrens novels in hardback. This makes TAMAHER look out of place.

You could get TAMAHER off eBay or Amazon? In hardback, that is.

Hm my shelf goes Rincewind Omnibus (Sourcery, Eric, Interesting Times) hardback, then paperbacks, hardback Hogfather, paperbacks, hardback The Truth, paperback Thief of Time, hardbacks Night Watch, Monstrous Regiment, Going Postal, paperback Maurice, hardbacks Wee Free Men/Hat Full of Sky, paperback "Science of"s.

Ahhh, not many of my books are on the shelf. there are a few piles of books near my bed though, from which I variosly extract the books I want to read.

We had a shelf But it fell down. Twasnt my fault I didnt put it up!

So you're now following the any-available-space method of storage?

Crikey! My bookshelf's still there, but mine are in the order in which they came out. I obviously haven't been creative enough, but there are so many now, I'd need a plan as cunning as an item created in the street of cunning artificers to rearrange them.

Well, they used to be in vaugely the-right-order-until-people-took-them-out-so-they're-not-anymore on the shelf on my brother's behead. Then they were in a box for AGES and now they're finally on the brand new bookshelves, but mum put them there so they're in nothin resembling order. Also, the self is high enough for the hard back ones to stand up, so they're lying down of top of each other. I'm considering ordering the books...

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I had two shelves, one to hold books and another to hold various rubbish I had. Then I started to collect Pratchett and was forced to get rid of all the books on the book shelf and put them in the press and replaced them with Pratchett. Then I started to collect Rankin and ran out of room, so I put up a third shelf to put his books on. Then I ran out of room on the Pratchett shelf (new books being released and all) for his books, and there was no more room on the wall for a fourth shelf, so I was forced put all the rubbish in the press and fill that shelf with a second layer of Pratchett.

So I should have room for about 3 three years before I run out of shelf space, and hopefully no one will open the bulging press.

Indeed. Some physicists theorise that the 90% of the universe's matter that is unaccounted for is in fact in GodBen's press.

So the physicists have been spying on me eh?

*Takes note.*

Actually, nobody can access the press as it's blocked by my keyboard.

Which is presumably why it's still unaccounted for.

*Getting Worried*

Suppose I've bought all the Pratchett's I possibly can. Won't they begin to collapse under their own weight, becoming compressed into a tiny, tiny point, but terribly heavy, complete with gravity well, sucking in my Rankins next to them on the shelf, then lonley planet's and so on