have bought a book and once you got it found out that you already had it???

*sigh*

I've done that a lot, actually. And I just recently did it again. (With two books!)

Sadly, I buy too many books, don't have time to read them all, and end up rebuying them a few years later once I've forgotten that I already had them...

Perhaps I'm just going senile or something.

Has anyone else experienced this? (Please tell me I'm not alone.)

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Alex - Orange County, CA - PCA

"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me."
Galatians 2:20

Manton - "The sovereign dominion of God is a great prop to our faith."

Yup... did it with Gospel Remission by Burroughs (had forgotten which one of them I didn't have) and with at least one other work, but I can't remember which it was (which is bad... maybe I'll buy a third of that one!)

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Todd K. Pedlar
member, First Congregational Church, (CCCC) Cresco, IA
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I've done it two or three times

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Adam Leavelle
Westminster OPC
Roaring Spring Pa.

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"Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all"

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Yes.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

Oh, believe me you are not alone. At one point in my life I had four copies of Huxely's "A Brave New World." Don't ask me why, but I did. My biggest problem is that when I discover I have two or more of the same title, I usually do nothing about. I shelve them together and forget about it. I probably should try selling some of them.

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Jeff Wyman
Seminarian
Little Farms Chapel OPC, Coopersville, MI
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI

"May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence." 1 Peter 1:2-3 (ESV)

Yep, I've done it at least twice. Thankfully I have a son who needs to build up his own library before leaving the nest.

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~James Helbert~, Wytheville, VA
Providence Reformed Presbyterian Church, RPCUS
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"Is this not a brand plucked from the fire?” - Zechariah 3:2

Haven't done that exactly but I have given away books before only to find out I needed them and had to re-buy them again. Does that count? lol

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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

Open profaneness is the broad dirty way which leads to hell
--but trusting in religious duties is a sure way, though a cleaner way to hell. ~ Thomas Brooks
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Done it a more than a few times... Now we keep an Excel document with all of our Christian library on it, printed up in a 3-ring binder. But STILL we do it!

There are some books that we've bought a couple or three times -- and if it doesn't happen on purpose, now we just say to each other, well, the Lord must have someone in mind for us to give this to; it wasn't an accident. And before long, it just about always happens that someone does come along who's been looking for just that book!

You can look at it that way: if you thought enough of the book to buy it twice - then there must be someone you can give it to...

Margaret

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

"He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

I have this strange compulsion to buy copies of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye whenever I find one. I dunno what that means.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

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I have two copies of Horton's Putting Amazing Back Into Grace as well as three copies of the classic Baby Words ...

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church
Student of Theology
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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"Nothing is sweet to me without the enjoyment of Christ in it." -- Thomas Brooks

There is a Half Price Books by my house, five to be exact. I have a hard not buying books I already have because it is such a good deal I can't pass up.I have several of the same kind of bibles because they were on sale and I could hardly pass it up. Then I wind up giving them away or selling to the local used Christian Bookstore.

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Erick Bohndorf, Covenant Baptist Church, KS
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The question for us today is, will we be like the majority of Israel and continue to look in fear at the giants in the land and urge our fellow Christians to be "realistic," or will we be like Joshua and Caleb and faithfully follow our king, trusting to fulfill every one of his promises completely?

This is one thing I don't think I've ever managed to do. I have bought additional copies of books before, but it has always been with the intention of giving it away.

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Chris Poe
Mandeville, LA

"There are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it--the lunatic fringe in all reform movements." Theodore Roosevelt

Just an idea but if you have more than one or two copy's of a particular book, maybe you can donate the extra to your church library if your church has one.

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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

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"The Catcher in the Rye?" Holden Caulfield?????? Somehow, Andrew, I just don't see the two of you as "kindred spirits!"



As for me, I'm kind of partial to anything by Jackie Collins or Rona Jaffe...

Margaret

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Margaret
Free Church of Scotland [Continuing]
Michigan

"He must increase, but I must decrease." - John 3:30

Ahh, it's just an allusion to a certain Mel Gibson movie called Conspiracy Theory.

I do collect extra copies of Puritan/Reformed books like The Christian's Daily Walk, The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven and The Songs of Zion to sell or share as I can with other interested readers.

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

My mother owns a used bookstore and there is an old man that comes in weekly to exchange books, on at least 3 occasions he has brought in books and then went and picked up another copy of the same book he just brought in. He got angry at the clerk one time because he thought she had given back the same books, but he had picked up another copy of both of the same books he had just exchanged. They now have a list of all the books he had bought and exchanged.

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Bryan Riddle
1689 London Baptist Confession
Bethel Baptist Church Owasso, Oklahoma

I did it with two books, once; but my books had been boxed up for a couple of years at the time, and so I couldn't look at them very often.

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Not because this is the Puritan Board, but I buy a lot of bibles. I currently own 83 English-language bibles. If I were to count the foreign-language bibles, I have over one hundred bibles. Different translations, sizes, purposes...It is a strange compulsion of mine. When my wife tells me no more bibles, I tell her we all collect things and bibles are my thing.

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Jeff Wyman
Seminarian
Little Farms Chapel OPC, Coopersville, MI
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, MI

"May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence." 1 Peter 1:2-3 (ESV)

When you start seeing the black helicopters in whisper mode with people repelling down from them looking for you,then you'll know your in trouble!

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Lon Wadkins (Jesup, Iowa)
New Covenant Fellowship, OPC
Independence, Iowa

Yes, as Henry Kissinger said, "Even paranoids have eneme---

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Andrew Myers
Husband of Jessica, Father of Jackson, Katie and Samuel
Member, Presbyterian Reformed Church of Northern Virginia
Warrenton, VA USA
Editor, The Matthew Poole Project

"Let your Morning Thoughts, and your last Evening Thoughts, be what shall become of you to all Eternity." -- Matthew Poole

I've done it a few times. And I've bought sets of which I've had individual volumes...I give them to my associate pastor.

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Ivan Schoen, Pastor * Maranatha Baptist Church * Poplar Grove, Illinois USA www.maranatha-sbc.org/
"Mankind is divided into two sorts: such as live according to man, and such as live according to God. These we call the two cities...The Heavenly City outshines Rome. There, instead of victory, is truth" — Augustine of Hippo

I have no doubt that he appreciates that.