Book Release 8.13.07
Like many academics, I have an addiction to purchasing used books. Combine that with the number of books I’ve gotten for required classes, and you have a space problem.
Realistically, however, there are only a certain number of books that I will continue to reference, and which make sense to keep in my immediate possession. With the Internet, library loans and so on, it doesn’t make sense to be a book hoarder.
Because of this, I am going to be giving away a book every time I purchase a new one, or at least attempting to do so. The idea is that if I haven’t referenced in a book in the past year, chances are that I won’t need it routinely in the future. I’ll be using BookCrossing to do this, but I’d like to try something first: below is a list of the initial books I am planning to "release." If you want one of them, leave a comment (your email address won’t be published, but I’ll use it to contact you about your shipping address). I only ask that you reimburse for the shipping, usually around $2.00.
I’ll leave the post’s comments open for a week and then release the books into the wild. So here goes…
*Clarification: You can have as many books as you want. Shipping is on you.
Book Release Open From 8.13.07 - 8.20.07
Tomorrow: Adventures in an Uncertain World (Bradley Trevor Greive, author of the Blue Day Book)
The Confessions of Saint Augustine (1961 Collier Books)Christianity and Culture (CS Lewis, 1976 Harcourt Brace & Company)Till We Have Faces (CS Lewis, 1984 Harvest Books)
The Office Sutras: Exercises for Your Soul at Work (Marcia Menter)
Milton: Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (paperback)A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament (5th Revised Edition, Zerwick )
A Call to Service (John Kerry)The Grand Miracle (CS Lewis Selected Essays)
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky, paperback)The Reformation (Owen Chadwick, paperback)
Martin Luther, Three Treatises (paperback)
From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest (TZ Lavine, paperback)The Pilgrim’s Regress by CS Lewis (illustrated paperback)
Bibles: NIV and ESV
Hardback Torah from the Hebrew Publishing Company
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