the things people will throw their money away on....

[slipknotpsycho]

By The Numbers: The 10 Most Expensive Books Of 2006 - Forbes.com (http://www.forbes.com/2007/01/16/most-expensive-books-tech-media-cx_ee_books06_0116expensivebooks_slide_10.html?thi sSpeed=3000)

books of all things, one worth 5.1 million, another worth 4 million...

[Metaphor]

i thought my textbooks were bad... jesus.

[Ganj]

Why are you worried about what other people do with their money?

[slipknotpsycho]

who said i'm worried about it? i'm not losing any sleep over it.. i'm just amazed at the prices people pay for some books... regaurdless how anceint it is, or what it represents...

[Ganj]

Even I can understand your surprise! Think of it as an idea. People invest billions of dollars in the construction of buildings because they know they'll receive a gain in some way or another. Why spend half a million dollars on ancient text? I'd imagine it would hold some value in the intellectual community. You'd be even more surprised at the flock of nerds who would give up their afternoon to merely read it's pages.

[slipknotpsycho]

Even I can understand your surprise! Think of it as an idea. People invest billions of dollars in the construction of buildings because they know they'll receive a gain in some way or another. Why spend half a million dollars on ancient text? I'd imagine it would hold some value in the intellectual community. You'd be even more surprised at the flock of nerds who would give up their afternoon to merely read it's pages.

actually after the ninth gate :p not really lol... i know it's only a movie but it also actually showed me into the world of those who take great pride in their own peronaly library.

[Ganj]

Hahaha! In that case, I wouldn't buy the book if I thought someone would use it's pages to summon terror upon the world! No thanks. Let the museum curator lose their life.

[slipknotpsycho]

no no no :p i just meant spending all day just to read a rare book in someone else's library... like you said..


You'd be even more surprised at the flock of nerds who would give up their afternoon to merely read it's pages.

[4twentE]

i'd like to have a daVinci sketchbook. but wouldn't pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.

[birdgirl73]

If I had the kind of money someone would have to have to buy a book like that, I can easily understand it. With that level of disposable wealth, I'd be an investor in art and buildings and various philanthropies, too, and I and the subsequent generations of my family would be well taken care of. It'd be just like an investment in art or an an ancient vase or statue or piece of jewelry. Or even like an endowment to a symphony or a museum. And I'm sure it wouldn't be a purchase someone would keep to himself. It'd be donated to a museum or rare books collection, most likely. A philathropic gift.

Yes, I can see how someone would spend that. . . .

[ghosty]

Yeah, I'd love to read some of those books. I suppose I still can in a sense in re-written editions for some of them, but to read out of one of the originals would be cool because of the authenticity of it

[MaryjaneAndHashley]

imo its just as buying an expensive painting...its still just a painting eh

yeah, id see how someone would spend that on a book too

[LIP]

If people have got enough money to be spending over 5 million on a bit of paper i dont think it'd even make a dent in their oversized bank balances.