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Books Collection: People’s Gusto
Posted: Sep 07, 2015
This hobby of collecting books and this phenomenon of loving books is known as bibliophilia and the person who is loving, admiring, reading and collecting books is known as bibliophile. It involves locating, finding, seeking, organizing, displaying, cataloging, storing and maintaining by an individual collector, the books of his interest.
Bibliophile book collection is very different from usual book collection, accumulation and reading of books. So, with the friends they are the best problem solver of the humans. Thus, some people have the hobby of collecting books.
Bibliophile book collection involves collection of manuscripts, second hand books, etc. book collection hobby can be easy and inexpensive as there are millions of books sellers and thousands of bookstores including online book sellers, like Amazon, Alibris, Abebooks, Flipkart, EBay, Shopclues, Biblio.com and lot more. User can also get the paperback edition from them.
Steps for collecting books:
The following steps may be performed to fulfill the book collection hobby:
The collection of books one is having displays the interest and the personality of the owners. The hobby of book collection can also give that person financially profit if the books are collected with effort and with keen interest and love. But like all other investment opportunities it is also not sure that it will definitely reap the benefits.
The collector should also store the books at the safest place, away from the moisture, dust, radiators, direct sunlight etc.
The collector can start to collect books on a specific topic Like railways and then start collecting on the particular topic on the railways like the books about the history of railways, the books about major innovations in the railways, then dividing them to particular area like north western railways, north eastern railways, contributions in southern railways etc. and after that switching over to next topic.
The collector will try to collect the original books, as it will make his collections more attractive and captivating which becomes easy for him to sell.
The books should always be maintained in the best conditions. The buyer will always try to buy and keep the books in best condition as per their budget. As it is better to have small collection of best quality books that large collection of distorted books.
The collector of books can collect or seek the books from various sources like the book shops, internet, etc. But while seeking books from the internet he should make sure that he must possibly view the books in person. He can also seek the books from various book fairs which tell him about various upcoming books and also he will get the opportunity of making connections with various book dealers from all over the world.
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