Show off your collections!

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I want to make this thread so people can show everyone here the collection(s) they have, whatever the collection is of. It would be cool to see what people have.

The only thing I collect is language books, but I have a lot of them. I have just over 50 paper books, but about 25 gigabytes of PDFs and audio for many different languages. A subset of language books, I collect The Little Prince in many languages; I have over 20 between paper books and PDFs. I'm proud of my collection. I'll list the names of the books that you can't read the title of, excluding The Little Prince books where applicable.

Apparently the forum software hates me and won't let me post the pictures in the thread, so links will have to suffice, hopefully.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... 7_0001.jpg
6th book: A Grammar of Modern Cornish

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... 7_0002.jpg
3rd book: La Aventuroj de Alico en Mirlando, Alice in Wonderland in Esperanto

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... 7_0003.jpg
3rd book: Mittelhochdeutsches Lesebuch, Middle High German Reader
4th book: Hareios Poter kai e tou philosophou lithos, the first Harry Potter book, in Ancient Greek

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... 7_0004.jpg
3rd to last: The Guid Scots Tongue
Last book: Elementary Turkish

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... 7_0005.jpg
Alys y'n Vro a Varthusyon: A cornish book, but too big to be put with the other Cornish books.
Beginning Cherokee and Sengoidelg are also too big to fit elsewhere.
Bás Prinssáš is printed on giant paper. I got it from someone in Norway.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... 7_0006.jpg
And while none of these are language books, I nonetheless have them. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A History of the Vikings, and Beautiful Norway, a "picture" book of Norway with descriptions in French, English, German, and Norwegian. I got it from my great-grandma shortly before she died, and she wrote a little note to me in it, so I treasure it.

As for The Little Prince, I have it in: Breton (book), Middle English (book), Old English (book), Irish Gaelic (book), Scottish Gaelic (book), German (book), Latin, (book), Maltese (book), Luxembourgish (book), Northern Sámi, Basque, Catalan, Esperanto, Dutch, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latvian, Spanish, and Turkish.

Those not marked (book) are on my computer.


And now my electronic collection. Since I have a TON of stuff, I won't post all the books I have, just which languages I have stuff for, and proof of its grandiosity.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... erials.png
Celtic and Germanic languages have their own special sub-folder, since I have many of each, and I'm hyper-organizational sometimes.
The Celtic folder just has five of six Celtic languages (Scottish, Irish, and Manx Gaelic, Cornish, and Welsh), Breton isn't in there since it was on my desktop for quick access, and I just put it in there for the screenshot. I'll post the Germanic folder, since I think it's worth showing.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l67/s ... guages.png

So, do you have any sort of collection you'd like to show off?

Last edited by dunbots on 17 Apr 2011, 5:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I guess the only physical things I collect are books, so I'll tidy mine up and post some photies.

Cool. By the way, could you please move this to the Random forum? I meant to post it there...

I forgot: I also "collect" language bookmarks. Featuring Firefox in Basque.



Although two are cut off, Bahasa Indonesia and American Sign Language at the top.

I assumed this was in Random, went to look for it this morning, spent 10 minutes trying to find it...

Goddamn, I envy your books.
How do you come by them?

I think that books are the only things I collect, too. I just rearranged my bookshelf that features the ones I like, so maybe I'll post a pic later.

You know what I think I'm gonna do next year?

Home school.
I think that's what you said you do, too... if I remember correctly.

So I can still get school done, yet have much more time to pursue my interests.

Well, about 8 or 9 I got as gifts, but most I bought with my own money. Several hundred dollars worth of books at least, over the last 3 years. The ones on my computer I downloaded.

You should indeed post a picture.


Indeed that is what I do. I think you'd like it, you can work whenever you want, sleep as much as you want (best part of the deal right there), and get away from the drooling imbeciles that are called "peers". And much more free time, since homework is schoolwork.

EDIT: Wait wait a second, "home school" you mean? Or do you mean online school? I do online school, rather than someone teaching me at home.

I plan on doing online school... at home.

It seems kind of odd that this thread hasn't gotten much recognition.
Meh.

My baby shelf.

A few Doraemon things on the top. :P

Now for the books.

New Testament (didn't know the author, like the atheist I am, so I just put it first.)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Brains that Work A Little Bit Differently by Allen D. Bragadon
Common Sense by Glenn Beck
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Philosophy by ___ Craig
Columbine by David Cullen
Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Freedom Evolves by Daniel Dennet (Autographed copy)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (kinda hidden)
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, The Double, and other stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground, The Double, and other stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
bite-size einstein
The Interpretation of Dreams by Siggie Freud
Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Gandhi: His Lif... Okay, screw it. Picture is too blurry to see and I've only read it once (two years ago...)
The Poetry of Robert Frost
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Einstein by Walter Isaacson
Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby
Brainiac by Ken Jennings
Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku
Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy
Word Power Made Easy by Normal Lewis
The Essential Book of Presidential Trivia by Noah McCullough
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
House Rules by Jodi Picoult (hate that book)
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker

Already mentioned everything through The Language Instinct, sooo...

We the Living by Ayn Rand
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison
A Thousand Days by Schlesinger
The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet (Kinda obscured)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
The Assassination of President Kennedy by the Warren Commision
Pretending to be Normal by Liane Holliday Willey

And on the top...

The Ultimate Japanese Phrasebook

my bookshelf:
my top fav books.
no 10.
The shadow cage
no.9:Eragon
no.8Hunger
no.7:Matisse
no.6:Circle of Friends: