Does anyone collect something else other than music.

I forget to say I collect stones and crystals for audio use.... :)

Interesting. I’ve never thought of books as a "collection."

I have books about any subjects, not only the one that interest me most...Books are collectable beautiful objects but are way over my possibilities to buy them and collect them now....I sell my 5 thousand books collection....By the way I read 4 thousand of them... I use other medium now...When you are older the place is less available and the house smaller...


Books are not only object tough for me ...Never has been only objects …. Books are living spirit no less real than my friends.... They speak... And living with them is like living in heaven....Many books has completely change my way of thinking and living....


I dont collect book in fact, no more than I collect people.... But in this thread we speak about collectable objects, books are objects also....

I pity those who has never pick a book that change their mind and heart many times in their life...


How can we know about geniuses of the past or contemporary one without their books ?

How can we marvel about nature if we dont live in the midst of it without books?


How can we fall in love if we live lonely without books?


I cannot live without the books I have read and even without those I will not have the time to read....


Music help me, books also.... :)



By the way, we cannot read Goethe or Blake and throw the object after reading it....We cannot throw books never, only some impersonal manual course perhaps, and not some for sentimental reason…. But for example who will throw the number theory course of G. H. Hardy after reading it ? It is a work of art....


One day I go to buy the books of a ninety old electrical engineering professor, we speak a lot, he was surprized that I comment about much of his books mathematical, physics and epistemological one, and at the end the last book was Maxwell electromagnetism ( old dover edition) and i said to him:" this one cannot go you keep it ".... He almost weep and say :" you are right" …. Books are not books they are souls....

I remember the day I go frantically in a search in the aunt's house for the first book I had ever seen....I turn his pages for one day...But we were poor, and the day after my aunt hide the book from me for his own children... :)  I desperately look for it and remember my search at 4 years old, this was my age for 2 reasons: I cannot read the words at this time, and it was the first time I go for every corner of this 2 floors housing and each 2 rooms under the attic near our own housing....I never see this book again in spite or because of my tantrums …. :)

I am amazed to be the only one that collect books it seems.... Anybody else?

When I was young I would kill someone for a book..... Times changes, I dont need to kill or steal.... :)

I collect books what else?