Feature and Follow Friday #94 – Doubles?

Posted 16 January, 2015 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Feature and Follow, Memes / 20 Comments

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Feature and Follow Friday #94 – Double?

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Do you own any doubles of your books? What led to getting that second…or third or fourth…copy?

Suggested by A Great Read. I do actually own doubles of some of my books, and there are two very different reasons for that. For some of the books I need to read for my classes, I’ll get the kindle edition (it’s often free, as a lot of my class-literature is from the classics) but I also need to get a specific paperback edition, so that we all have the same edition and can look up page numbers easily when we do close text analysis. The other reason I may have doubles is that I usually get the kindle edition for books I buy and if I really, really enjoy it, I may get the audiobook as well. So far, most of the audiobooks I have listened to are stories I already love – and listening instead of re-reading makes me feel less guilty about re-visiting a book I love.

What about you? Do you own any doubles?

Thanks for stopping by today, have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful weekend.

Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

About Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms

Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.

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20 responses to “Feature and Follow Friday #94 – Doubles?

  1. Oh yeah, I have some doubles myself and a lot of them are on my Kindle, but then some of them were ARC’s that I had received for review and then I went ahead and bought the finished copy. A few of them were either gifted to me or I had forgotten that I had already bought them and re-purchased them when I found them for a good price. I’m planning to give some of the duplicates a really good home to my sister and a friend, but there are a couple that I am going to keep because it was due to a cover change and I’m a little stickler for wanting my covers to match in a series. 🙂

    Happy Reading and Hopping! 🙂
    Suz @ A Soul Unsung

    Suz @ A Soul Unsung recently posted: Feature + Follow Friday: Do You Own Any Doubles?!
    • Oh, you’re right, Suz. I do also sometimes buy the finished book after reading an ARC. And I can totally understand wanting to have the same cover for a full series – it’s no good suddenly having a different size or cover-art in the middle.
      Thanks for stopping by, have a fantastic Friday.

    • I get my audios from audible. And since I usually get audiobooks where I already own the kindle-book, I can get them through amazon, often at a cheaper price.
      Happy reading, Shan 🙂

  2. Hi there! This happens when we stumble upon beautiful books, we can’t get enough of them, whether that might be re-reading the book, ebook, buying the audiobook. Millions and millions of ways! 🙂 Have a great weekend… By the way, I really like your blog art.

  3. Happy Friday, Lexxie!!! I own several doubles because either they are of beloved titles that I wanted to re-experience in a different format, so I purchased the audiobook version, or I do on occasion ‘forget’ that I already own a novel, and accidentally purchase it a second time. LOL! To be fair, sometimes I buy a copy, and then the publisher sends me one too, so it’s not always my fault.

    Carmel @ Rabid Reads recently posted: Audiobook Review: Ensnared by A.G. Howard
    • Happy Friday, Carmel 🙂 I think the re-experience is what truly works the best for me 🙂 Ha, I actually have forgotten I already own books, too, and I’m very happy I’m not the only one 🙂

  4. I didn’t even think about including books as ARCs and finished copies that I have. I do have a couple of those. I also have doubles as e-books and physical ones. I really like your idea of having doubles as audiobooks so you can reread them that way!

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    • I keep telling myself there are too many new books I want to read, and so having audiobooks of favorites is a great way to be able to do a re-read anyway 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Stephanie!

  5. I do own doubles – I took notice of that recently. I bought those novels in a separare edition and then in a boxed set. So I have many, many Eve Langlais, and I’m not going to complain 😉 If I really love a book, I like to keep an independant edition, not just have it in a boxed set. I’m not sure I’ll re-read it some day, but I want to be able to 🙂

    Red Iza recently posted: The sunday post #5 : What's up ?
    • Oh, yeah, I probably also have some novels and novellas on their own, and then once again in a boxed set. I didn’t even think about that possibility, Iza 😀 And I’m like you, not much of a re-reader, but I want it to be easy for me to do so if I really want to.

  6. Hi! Yes, I have a few doubles in my collection. Actually, I have a triple that happened purely by accident. Not all my books are properly shelved so I’ll find a Nancy Drew here or there. I love picking these up at yard sales and used book stores. Of course, it’s not always easy to remember what titles are already collected so somehow I picked up two of the regular yellow, hard covers of The Mystery at Lilac Inn and one that is a reproduction of the original cover from the 30s. LOL That was completely unplanned.

    My Shakespeare anthologies are a different story. I have my annotated textbook from college and another with gilt edge pages. I don’t think you can have too many copies of Shakespeare. The same with The Canterbury Tales. I have two of those.

    Another somewhat accidental double is book one in the Vampire Academy series. I read book one then someone gave me the boxed set.

    The only truly plotted and planned set of doubles I have are my Twilight books. My friend sent me all 4 as a birthday present. The first was the paperback, movie tie-in cover and the rest were the black hardcovers. So, of course, I had to get the regular cover for Twilight and the movie tie-ins for the rest. LOL [Note: my Twilight is still a paperback – no need for 3 copies. Although, I did entertain the idea of having the eBook versions for my nook.]

    Xyra recently posted: Melody's Birthday 2015 Part 3
    • I actually have both the paper-backs, the audio-books, the hard-backs and the kindle versions of Twilight, Xyra. And I also have the paperbacks in French… so yeah, doubles, triples… who’s counting?
      Happy reading 🙂

  7. As you know, I have some doubles…both on my nook and my kindle. And the reason for this is that I didn’t check before I one-clicked! *ha* Also, I sometimes get a physical copy because I have the series in my library but would prefer to read it on my ereader – particularly the case when the book is mass market sized. And I have found that I’ve picked up 2 copies of a physical copy of a book at times. :/ I like to think that these books – the ones I have doubles of – are the ones I should read ASAP as I obviously was really excited about them! 🙂

    **BIG HUGS**

    Bookworm Brandee recently posted: Teaser Tuesday ~ #53
    • Yeah, unconscious one-clicking is not always a good thing, Brandee 😀 And I agree about owning the hard-backs or paper-backs for the shelves, but reading the e-book. The e-books are so much more easy to hold, and never too heavy.
      *BIG HUGS*

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