Do you keep an old, single book from your past as a personal treasure?
By DuoMaxwell
@DuoMaxwell (953)
United States
September 4, 2008 8:52pm CST
Today, on 9/4/2008, as I was sorting through my stuff in my room, and trust me, i'm a pack rat on this, I ran into my old book that i've bought ever since I was in middle school in the mid to late 90s:
"You Can Surf the Net! Your Guide to the World of the Internet" by Marc Gascoigne
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/marc-gascoigne/you-can-surf-net.htm
This was written in 1995, so this was when I was in middle school already. I bought this at a book fair at the library, and i'm not so sure if it was Scholatstic or not, but since I loved anime, technology and computers, the book just screamed out:
"BUY ME! BUY ME PLEASE! BUY ME!!!"
This book drew me into the world of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and it was like love at first sight. It was so good that I didn't throw it away. This old book, now taped up, tattered,marked by me all those years and its pages turned old-school yellow-ish brown, turned my life around, and I kept it as not only a treasure, but a keepsake. Some of the websites are dead, but not anymore thanks to the Wayback Machine at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php and the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/index.php . Even now, I will NEVER sell it or discard it. This book is too precious to me.
Is there any book that you feel the same way as I do with my book? Is there any old book that you've kept when you were little that you would never, EVER throw away?
"You Can Surf the Net! Your Guide to the World of the Internet" by Marc Gascoigne
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/g/marc-gascoigne/you-can-surf-net.htm
This was written in 1995, so this was when I was in middle school already. I bought this at a book fair at the library, and i'm not so sure if it was Scholatstic or not, but since I loved anime, technology and computers, the book just screamed out:
"BUY ME! BUY ME PLEASE! BUY ME!!!"
This book drew me into the world of the Internet and the World Wide Web, and it was like love at first sight. It was so good that I didn't throw it away. This old book, now taped up, tattered,marked by me all those years and its pages turned old-school yellow-ish brown, turned my life around, and I kept it as not only a treasure, but a keepsake. Some of the websites are dead, but not anymore thanks to the Wayback Machine at http://www.archive.org/web/web.php and the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/index.php . Even now, I will NEVER sell it or discard it. This book is too precious to me.
Is there any book that you feel the same way as I do with my book? Is there any old book that you've kept when you were little that you would never, EVER throw away?1 person likes this
5 responses
@kellycontrary (40)
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5 Sep 08
I havent kept this book, but I loved it as a child and my nan bought if for me a couple of years ago "The Magic Faraway Tree" by Enid Blighton. Ill keep that til i have kids now!
@pheonixstar1982 (2307)
• United States
5 Sep 08
I always keep the books that interest me the most and i dont know how long i have had some of them. However, there was a book i loved as a little girl but i never owned it so a few years ago a christmas time my mom hunted a copy down and got it for me. I thought it was the sweetest thing and i still think its the cutest book ever. Its called The Littlest Angel and i cant remember who its by.
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@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
5 Feb 09
I don't have a particular one that I feel connected to but I do have alot of old books, mostly Perry Mason, that are from way, way back...they are so old the pages are falling out and I have to keep them in a ziplock. We're talking 1941 here...way before I was even born. I can't stand the thought of just tossing them out so I hang onto them. I really can't even read them anymore b/c the pages are so fragile.
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@paidreader (5143)
• United States
13 Oct 08
One of my favorite books from childhood was Where the Red Fern Grows, by Wilson Rawls. I think I must have read it in elementary school but didn't track down my own copy until much later. When my daughter became interested in reading, I loaned her my well worn copy and she enjoyed it as much as I did. 
@williamjisir (22819)
• China
30 Oct 08
Hello DMwell. In fact, I am still keeping many of my textbooks used at college in my cupboard though I never read them. Those books are getting yellowish. They have been kept for two decades. Also I have some even older picture-books which were bought when I was a kid till when I was a teen. They mean a lot to me as they can also remind me of those days when I was a kid and college student. They are part of my wonderful memories.
