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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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
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"As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low."
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I've done it two or three times

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Adam - Pennsylvania - Baptist

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Yes.

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Andrew

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
Man Under Care
Little Farms Chapel OPC, Coopersville, MI
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

"Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other." - Isaiah 45:22 (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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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

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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

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.

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

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

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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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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Christian
One Pilgrims Progress

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.

"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

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.

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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John Donne

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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.

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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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 R. Schoen, B.A., M.A., M.L.I.S.
Pastor of Maranatha Baptist Church (SBC)
Poplar Grove, IL, USA
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I have no doubt that he appreciates that. I wish we had a good bookstore around here but a good book store that sells theological sound books is a rarity these days. Most so called "Christian" books stores are only interested in selling the latest fad book by Osteen or Benny Hinn and lots of Jesus junk that is worthless but sells for $$.

Ditto but you forgot the book "How to talk to angels".

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Fraser,
Trinity Reformed Baptist Church
Hamilton, New Zealand.

Wow. I'm glad I'm not alone in this.
Interesting note, one of the books was "Gospel Remission" by Burroughs. Now I have two...

Hey, at least I'm in good company.

A side note, I just got a book today from Solid Ground (my first time ordering from them), and they have wrapped the book up so nice as if it was fine merchandise.

I gotta say, it was a joy unwrapping it.
(I never thought I'd say that)

And I'm sure it'll be a joy reading it too.

Oh... Sorry! It's something I do with fair frequency these days: totally miss recent cultural references (probably especially those that are Mel Gibson-related - )... I would be "anathema" to him - and I enthusiastically return the favor!

Cheers,

Margaret

Well played...

<proceeds to balance glass bottle on door knob to office before sitting down to read a puritan favorite>

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Christopher Reeder
Husband to Kara, Father to Abigail (8), Caleb (7), Grace (5 1/2), Zoë (4), Elijah (2), Hannah (1), and Mary (due February 2010)

Member: Pilgrim Presbyterian Church (OPC), Raleigh, NC

What happens with me is not that I forgot I already have it, but that I can't find the one I already have. So I buy another copy of it, and then after I bought the other copy, I eventually find the first book but only after stores' return policy expires.

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Will Shin
Rockville, MD

I have to say that I've never done this. Maybe it's because I haven't been doing this long enough to have the relapse occur, or because I have a mental list of every book I own... since the second isn't likely, the first is probably the case!

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Jacob
Sovereign Grace Ministries
Covenant Fellowship Church
WTS M.A.R. in Theology student
West Chester, PA

"Grace renews nature; glory perfects grace." ~ John Owen
"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace. It is glory in its infancy." ~ John Flavel
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Yep. I bought 2 P.Johnson books: Darwin on Trial and J Stuart Russell's
The Parousia:

I read Johnson's book, but have NEVER gotten around to reading Russell's.

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~ Steven Bradford ~
Member Covenant Presbyterian, Chattanooga, TN

Yup. We've got two copies of Revival and Revivalism (Murray, Iain H).

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Husband of ENS, father of J II. | Indian Trail, NC
disabled - cancer
Communicant Member, Precentor | Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte, NC | Presbyterian Reformed Church

zzzzzz ...

Being the nice guy that I am, I am willing to take these duplicate books off your shelves, relieving them of the pressure book space, for FREE of charge! That's right. All you have to do is send them to my address, and you will no longer have to burden your book shelves with unnecessary volumes. PM me for details and enjoy quick relief to all your overstock problems!

How about that 2nd copy of: Everyone Poops (My Body Science)

Hmmm so if your church doesn't have a library with that book already, feel free to send it this way... *cough cough*

And that's another good question to ask the beau! "How's your library look?"

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Susan Anita - Clan Scott!
Member of Grace Bible Church - Bakersfield, CA www.gbcob.org

Sometimes you need two of some books, one that stays in your house and one for your car. The car copy is so that you can annoy the daylights out of people behind you as you keep reading while a red light turns green, or a green arrow permits a left turn... . I'm thinking that Calvin's Institutes or Charnock's "The Existence and Attributes of God" would be good ones for this purpose.

Margaret

I confess that I've done it. I just blamed it on getting older.

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Upon a life I did not live; upon a death I did not die, Another's death, Another's life, I'd rest my soul eternally
Omnia dicta fortiora,si dicta Latina
Si vis pacem, para bellum

I fear we have all NOW been exposed !

If you wanted to pass one of those on to me - should not have already done so with another fortunate soul - I would be happy to receive!

Well, if you want a copy of my duplicates, you'll have to attend my church's worship service. It's during the start of the worship service during the welcome and announcements that I give away these duplicate books and other books to church members and visitors.

It happens to me all the time. I have "unwittingly" purchased more books for church libraries than I could possibly count.

After you have several thousand books its just too hard to remember if you bought this one yet or not!

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Sterling Harmon
Presbyterian Church of Coventry (PCA)
Coventry, CT
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Yeah Doesn't everyone do that!?

That's .. a quick count of my Bible shelves...

I appear to have only 82 English language Bibles. (there must some in another room), but sounds like a good excuse to buy another Bible!

I also have several Hebrew texts, about 15 Greek texts (plain text...and interlinear) one in French, and 3 Spanish versions.

And on the shelves with all these Bibles, I have placed a booklet "facing out" called "Choosing a Bible" by Leland Ryken...just for laughs.