That 10% thing is just a myth; saw an article about it recently.
It started out as some anthropologist speculating wildly, and quickly hardened into conventional wisdom.
What *I'd* like to be able to do is convince my hubby to get rid of our duplicates. He seems rather OCD on the topic.
Enh, for most of them, it's more like "yeah, OK, but when?". The OCDness comes up for books that were mine, for which the book itself (or at least the edition) has meaning beyond the actual contents.
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Date: 2004-08-30 06:53 am (UTC)It started out as some anthropologist speculating wildly, and quickly hardened into conventional wisdom.
Enh, for most of them, it's more like "yeah, OK, but when?". The OCDness comes up for books that were mine, for which the book itself (or at least the edition) has meaning beyond the actual contents.