tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537965748256551796.post7413378347885532310..comments2023-09-24T10:19:01.383+01:00Comments on John's Green Issues: New NaturalistsJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14197399895034972279noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6537965748256551796.post-15323209210359868642008-07-24T06:52:00.000+01:002008-07-24T06:52:00.000+01:00I had a half-baked plan to write a New Naturalist ...I had a half-baked plan to write a New Naturalist book, buy as many copies as I could (as author I would get them at trade price), stockpile and wait for the price to rocket. <br><br>What I have got is a run of the earlier volumes which my father received as review copies (free!). But they became working books: tatty, bent, stained, dustjackets torn or missing. I always bought the paperbacks because they were affordable. <br><br>I once found a long-soughtafter polar book in a collectors' secondhand shop. The proprietor was most apologetic that one of the preliminary pages was missing. And was upset when I said that I had bought it to read so the missing page was redundant.<br><br>Books are for reading not investment!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com