Re: Sleeping in Light

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 03:07:49 +0000 (UTC), Wendy of NJ <voxwoman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> A "collector's item" can be anything as long as there is someone who
> wants to collect it.

Yes and no. You may collect tree leaves, and even pay for them, but that
doesn't make them a collector's item. I do know what you're saying, but we
are talking about slightly different things. Like I said, a rare
first-edition of an important book may be an expensive collector's item,
because there's something unique about that particular item. The *content*
of that book should not be a collector's item.

A few years from now, when every book is available electronically, rare
editions will still be a collector's item, and priced as such. I don't
have a problem with that.

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