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[Bond111]

I spent months buying the whole collection of the James Bond books from many places on the internet. Then of course a few weeks later, as my luck usually goes, they started re-releasing the Ian Fleming books :mad:. I was just curious what all of you are doing with your book collections. Are you trading in the old ones to update to the new ones? Are you keeping both sets? Comments?

[Neil S. Bulk]

I have never given away any of my Bond books.

Neil

[Turn]

Since I only have a limited amount of disposable money, I have no intention to buy the new versions. The words are the same, just in a prettier package. I'd rather focus on things I don't have in any capacity, such as the TWINE Companion book I just won on auction.

However, if I did have unlimited capital, I would buy the new ones just to have them all in hardback and still keep the others.

[dennisbolt]

There are two camps: readers and collectors. With Bond you will sooner or later become a collector of some sort. It is nice to have some reading copies so you don't have to crack the spines of the cool new paperbacks:-)

[Cesari]

I'm a reader first. I want to read and re-read the James Bond books.
Then I collect them. So I keep all my old editions. I collect all the french editions from the first Fleming books in the 50's to the last ones of Benson, Gardner and Fleming re-issue.
I won't buy the new penguin edition but I'm so found of the new Fleming us editions that I will buy them too.
And I no fortunate at all too, but I've time.
I've a friend who wrote a pc CD-rom with the covers of all the french editions of James Bond books. And it is very useful for my researches.

[Qwerty]

When I first started collecting the James Bond novels, I only bought ones that I didn't already have a copy of. Now, with all the Penguin reprints finally released, and that I have bought them all, I realize it's really fun to buy all the publications.

It all depends on how much you like to collect, and either way works, depending on what works for you.

I'll continue to buy the many different publications as that's the way I collect them.

[IndyB007]

Well I would keep them all, or sell the ones that you do not want to keep. Myself, I am buying the new editions, but I also collect the first printings of the Signet Paperbacks, the movie editions of the Signet papebacks and now I'm going to start on the movie editions of the Pan papberbacks.......

[Ezekiel]

I'm working on not getting any same two stories from the same publication series, if that makes any sense? I figure that I don't have enough cash to buy them all loads of times, so I'm getting them gradually. It's a bit of a mess on the shelf, but I like it that way.