Moral issues on signed copies

[Timewalker]

Your flatmate has a collector's mentality and you do not. I could see two possible courses of action. 1. You could have sold the book to him at an inflated price and bought a new copy, plus a case of beer (or some really good coffee). 2. You could have stuck a slice of ham in it, dropped it in the soup, then slapped your flatmate with it.

Books are for reading, people, not for locking away somewhere out of sight.

I disagree. There is a huge difference between collectors who do it for the love of the subject matter and those who are in it for the money. Those who do it for the money are not really collectors. They are investors, profiteers, and entrepreneurs. When they see a copy of The Making of the Trek Conventions by Joan Winston, they don't see wonderful memories of the first Star Trek conventions. They see $$$. What they are not is a collector who is also a fan -- and I'm sure that all of us here who like to preserve our collections are fans.

 

[Winter Lord]

Your book, your money, do with it what you will. You brought to read not to have it set on a shelf and gather dust.