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| User: | bookwyrm (114787) |
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| Name: | bookwyrm | ||||||||||
| Location: | Columbus, Ohio, United States | ||||||||||
| Birthdate: | 1975-08-11 | ||||||||||
| Bio: | Once the bookcases were seated and screwed into the walls, out came the books, thousands of them, tens of thousands of them. Little kids' books with loose signatures, ancient first-edition hardcovers, outsized novelty art books, mass-market paperbacks, reference books as thick as cinderblocks. They were mostly used when he'd gotten them, and that was what he loved most about them: They smelled like other people and their pages contained hints of their lives: marginalia and pawn tickets, bus transfers gone yellow with age and smears of long-ago meals. When he read them, he was in three places: his living room, the authors' heads, and the world of their previous owners. They came off his shelves at home, from the ten-by-ten storage down on the lakeshore, they came from friends and enemies who'd borrowed his books years before and who'd "forgotten" to return them, but Alan *never* forgot, he kept every book in a great and deep relational database that had begun as a humble flatfile but which had been imported into successive generations of industrial-grade database software. | ||||||||||
| Schools: | None listed | ||||||||||
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| Mutual Friends: | 3: accioslash, dementordelta, telesilla | ||||||||||
| Member of: | 2: harryslash, polyamory | ||||||||||
| Account type: | Free Patient | ||||||||||
