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View Poll Results: How did you acquire your books? | |||
I was given them | 43 | 53.75% | |
I've bought them myself | 60 | 75.00% | |
I've inherited them | 23 | 28.75% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 80. You may not vote on this poll |
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02-01-2006, 06:43 AM | #1 |
Deadnight Chanter
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Public Research: Free Cheese
Part of Public Research Project
This one also allows multiple choices, since the books are many and ways of their acquisition are many as well. Per instance, The Hobbit was a 'heirloom', and LoTR I and SoWM I was given, the rest I've bought for myself. If all ways apply to you, click away all three
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02-01-2006, 07:46 AM | #2 |
The Pearl, The Lily Maid
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I was given all of them. In fact, my younger brother and sister got me a beautiful hardcover edition of "The Hobbit" (with all the original illustrations) for my graduation, and I spend so much time looking at Tolkien's sketches I haven't even read it all the way through yet.
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02-01-2006, 07:51 AM | #3 |
Byronic Brand
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Blast. I thought perhaps this poll would ask whether, in an ideal world, we would prefer to be given Stilton, pecorino, manchego, Roquefort, Camembert, chevre, saganaki, feta or Mature Cheddar...
Such a poll exists only in my mind's eye. Nevertheless, I vote Roquefort...
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02-01-2006, 09:13 AM | #4 |
Shady She-Penguin
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Is it inherited or gived if your dad gives his old books to you when he moves when your parents split up?
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02-01-2006, 09:28 AM | #5 |
Deadnight Chanter
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In my case, The Hobbit (which was translated way before LoTR, in 1976), was bought before I was born by my grandmother (she used to buy books in pairs, for my mothers and my uncle's families), so I count it inherited
In your case, it's up to you to decide, but I suppose inherited more than given though inherit be 'to receive from an ancestor as a right or title descendible by law at the ancestor's death', as I would rather leave the death part and count ancestral part only in the case
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02-01-2006, 09:36 AM | #6 |
Shady She-Penguin
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Ok, thanks Heren.
I voted for both inheriting (LotR, TH, UT, Sil) and buying (HoME:PoME, Letters). The vote is quite even, it seems. And will the 'Downs be conquered by a massive public research invasion?
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02-01-2006, 11:21 AM | #7 | |
A Mere Boggart
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I have been given a fair few different Tolkien books; I suppose they make good presents for people to choose, especially nice editions and sets. I've also inherited my brother's old books, and have bought some editions myself. Quite a lot have been from charity or second hand shops where I've acquired some real bargains, but some have also come from e-bay which I find sooo tempting..... I'm most fond, at the moment, of retro sets, which can be had pretty cheaply and you often see well cared-for box sets.
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02-01-2006, 11:39 AM | #8 | |
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02-01-2006, 12:17 PM | #9 |
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
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I'm starting to suspect that the "Free cheese" was merely a lure, to trick hapless dagas such as ourselves into voting...
Curse you, HI, and your tricksy cheeses!
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02-01-2006, 08:21 PM | #10 | |
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