Holy moly. I couldn't even scratch the surface of that many books... but... I am drawn to the collection. I want it. Must... have... it.

Once I remove the ones I've already read, I bet it wouldn't take me 15 years to get through the stack.

These, however, are paperbacks. I tend to avoid buying paperbacks unless there are no hardbacks to be bought at a garage sale. I will add it to my Amazon wish list, however.

I'm certain he would (Brian J. Noggle) if not for the matter of the family budget. Pesky budget.

And paperbacks - pleh. We're snobs, doncha know?

hln

As they say on LOLcat:

Want.

Except, of course, for three small matters:

1. I don't really have $8K to throw around like that. Even if they're 40% off.

2. There's the small matter of "where to keep them." My house is already approaching Total Bookshelf Domination and until I build that anti-gravity device that allows me to store stuff on the ceiling, I don't have space.

3. I have a full-time (more than that, some weeks) career. A more realistic estimate for my reading them would be something like 50 years, and I'm sadly afraid I might not have that much time left (or if I do, my eyes will fail before my body does).

But still, what a lovely thought...to own ALL the Penguin Classics.

(And I care not that they are in paperback. Makes reading 'em in bed - which is where I usually read - that much easier.)

For the most part, I prefer paperbacks as I can, unless it is a very thick one, drop it in my back pocket and take it with me wherever I go.