Do you suffer from book amnesia?

51vnalbuhl_sl500_aa240_ Peter Robins wrote a piece for the Telegraph yesterday about buying a book only to get it home and find that you already own it.

At first I thought I could confidently say I'd never done this - sometimes if I see a favourite book with a new cover I really, really want to buy it again - but then I remembered, I did do it. Just a couple of weeks ago, in fact. With the first book in Meg Cabot's Princess Diaries series. (I could have sworn I'd loaned it to someone and, since I wanted to re-read them all before the final instalment comes out, I had to buy it again!)

What about you? Are your shelves crammed with duplicates?

Do you suffer from book amnesia? - Comments

  • Ooooh I do this too - and with DVDs. With books it&#39s mostly the classics. I see a copy of "1984" or "Brave New World" in a second hand bookshop and think, "I love that book. Not sure I&#39ve got a copy at home." Then I find one. Sometimes, because I&#39ve got so many books, it&#39s months before I realise I&#39ve got two!



    Helen - I recently had magazine amnesia and came home with a copy of Now to find the exact same issue on my coffee table. Doh!

  • Stella, I definitely have *that* kind of book amnesia. I forget a book fairly soon after reading it!



    Helen, I&#39ve definitely done that. Loads of times.

  • I have magazine amnesia very often. Is that the same?!

  • Stella

    It takes a great deal of self control for me, when one of my favourite authors publishes a new book and reissues all of his/her books with fancy schmancy new covers, not to buy all their books again. It&#39s so that they match, you see.



    But in answer to your question, no, I haven&#39t yet suffered from book amnesia. But I have from film amnesia. I was three quarters through watching Transamerica before I realised I&#39d seen it before.

  • Amy

    I have several copies of the same book - mainly classics that I love. I have 3 copies of Jane Eyre and 2 copies of Northanger Abbey. I also have 2 copies of Rescuing Rose by Isabel Wolff (one of my favourite chick lit books).

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