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Oct 19, 2010

Losing Books

Nylon Angel (Parrish Plessis)I moved just over a year ago.  


Understandably some things are still in boxes.  


Now I was over visiting Marianne de Pierres site having stumbled over a tweet about some of her newer work.


I asked whether or not her kindle titles were drm'd wanting to buy them via kindle and convert to epub for my Sony reader.  

Bear with me...


Marianne kindly took the time to ask her agent if they were (they are) but mentioned that her newer series Sentients of Orion was going to be released on Smashwords (woot!).  I thanked her for her time suggesting that I would probably round off my collection of the Paris Plessis series with the final paperback as I already had Nylon Angel, and Code Noir 


or at least I thought I did.


I never throw books away


and I have at least a couple of shelves of absolute trash to testify to this.  I have spent at least half a day checking every box in the frigging house,but to no avail Nylon Angel and Code Noir are nowhere to be seen.


The frustration is palpable - though in reality its a first world problem™.

Tell me what books have you lost?  Does losing books induce migraine forming frustration? Or do you favour a Buddhist approach and consider the book as already lost before you buy it?

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At the top of my head, I lost a book from In Death series by JD Robb and the strange thing is, it's one in the middle of the series, not the first which I lent to friends to see if they'd like the series.
I wasn't terribly frustrated about losing the book, more about the fact I will have to spend money because I wasn't taking good care of my stuff (and I lack proper space to shelve them all). :)
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The fact that I have lost two in a series has me concerned that I may have lot an entire box. =/

May have to buy an electronic cataloging system.
I lost 'The Never-ending Story' when I moved once... although, I do question whether an ex-boyfriend stole it because that is also plausible. Quite a number of items went missing... in that case I figured the loss was a small price to pay to escape a slimball ;) haha

hhmmm I can understand why you are worried though, about losing a whole box... sometimes when I look for things, and can't find them, they turn up later.. somewhere I already looked... but that could just be me and my fine observation skills.
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On the plus side I found a whole heap of DVD's that I was looking for. I am hoping they are in some place I haven't looked or have looked over.

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