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The article discusses a book collector's experience of donating his favorite volumes of Southern authors to the library at Washington Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. His collection of books by Ellen Glasgow now belongs to the university and he gave it as a memorial to his professor, Marshall Fishwick. He and his wife brought eight wine boxes filled with his first book collections gift to his college library.

The article discusses the author's experience as a book collector. Topics discussed include the author's plans if he wins the lottery including getting back into some systematic book collecting, his background as a book collector including the first editions of "Queen Zixi of Ix" and "The Enchanted Island of Yew," by L. Frank Baum and acquisition of the 2,500-volume personal library of Walter R. Brooks.

This article discusses human behavior and our desire to keep things that mean a lot to us and store them away. The article argues that the accumulation of books and other such things may not be the best idea as they are generally destroyed in our basements by moss and mildew. Book discovered in the author's basement include "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves," by P. G. Wodehouse, "Bound for Glory," by Woody Guthrie, and a book that features two stories in one including "John Lennon: In His Own Write," and "A Spaniard in the Works," by John Lennon.

In this article, the author comments on relocating from San Diego to Columbus, Indiana. The author's new house is still filled with boxes containing his extensive book collection, even though he donated 75 boxes of books before the move. At one point after the move, the author realized that he was becoming his eccentric great-great uncle Chauncey Morgan Abbott, also a book collector. He notes how odd it is that history seems to repeat himself, but says he's happy to move closer to his family so he can watch his niece's and nephew's sons grow up.

The article reports that Appalachian State University alumnus Bill Rhinechart and his wife Maureen Rhinehart has given the school's library more than 600 rare books on British history in Boone, North Carolina. In addition, the couples also donated their collection of some 600 modern books related to the subjects of the rare books. The couples had collected the books for several decades. Their collection, which spans the 16th to the 19th century, grew from their interest in the British monarchy, aristocracy, and political history.

In this article, the author comments on collecting books. He comments on a copy of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" he got in college, in which he underlined the various forms of booze the characters drank. The author has collected pulp-era paperbacks for the past 30 years and he chooses them based on their cover art. He has decided that his favorite cover artist is James Avati, who painted for Signet paperback covers.

Argues in favor of rereading favorite books. Challenges to finding time to read new books; Benefits of reading books within the same genre; View that readers should revisit favorite authors and specific books; Favored authors for habitual rereading, including Jane Austen, Thomas Mann, Henry James, and Edith Wharton; Comments on the most frequently read books.

Presents information on the donation by John Buschen to the Chalmer Davee Library of the University of Wisconsin, River Falls of 1,200 books from his private collection. What the collection consists of; Information on Buschen.

Reports on the death of Hans Peter Kraus, Ridgefield, Connecticut-based renowned bibliophile and chairman of Kraus-Thompson Organization. Book shops established; Honor received from the Library of Congress for his donation of the Drake Collection.