Books you have owned more than 1 copy of?

[OneUmberJoker]

At any time

I sent stacks of paperbacks to the charity shop when I first got my Kindle. Then some years down the line, I decided to do my Master's (in literature) followed by my PhD (ditto) so now I'm up to my ears in physical books again. You can't get everything you want in ebook editions and physical books are better/easier for referencing. Plus the idea of doing high level research in literature without using actual books was miserable. On the other hand, I've got musculoskeletal problems and I try to keep down the size and weight of my bag. You can't beat an ereader for helping with that and my Kindle is always busy.

So I've got multiple (especially ebook and paper) editions of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Patrick Hamilton, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier, George Eliot, E. Nesbit, May Sinclair, Elizabeth Bowen, Charles Dickens and probably a lot more if I think about it.

I’ve got about 200 editions of Alice in Wonderland.

Other books though
Several copied of The Five People You Meet in Heaven have passed through my hands, because I give them to people to read/love/pass on. Also The Handmaid’s Tale.

Softback Danny Champion of the World for the kids. I love this story, and years later bought a first edition hardback from an Oxfam bookshop.

Crimson Petal and the White, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, The Brontes, Charlotte Sometimes, The House that Sailed Away, When Marnie was There.

Secret seven......read them over and over as a child as didn't have many books and I was a bookworm. Bought them for my sons and they are still on book shelf of my 34 year old🥰

I collect the Clothbound Classics but had many of them in cheapo form from my uni days

@PestoHoliday I have two copies of each of LMM's Emily books - one for me, one for DD. And a first edition DH doesn't know i bought

Two sets of the first 12 Chalet School books again one for me and one (paperback Armadas!) for dd.

Many duplicate kids books where I've thought "I loved that as a child", brought it home for dc and found i still had my childhood copy. And/or DH had the book on his childhood shelf too.

Also duplicates of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings - caught out by the 90s fashion for massive beautiful hardback editions that are too heavy to actually read.

And the inevitable ones republished with different titles, including some horribly edited and dumbed down Jean Ure books.

Midnight in the garden of good and evil

Multiple copies lent out and never got back (don't mind, feel I'm spreading the goodness) George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London, Wilfred Owen Collected Poems and Gerald Durrell Corfu Trilogy.

What excellent taste you have 😊

@Uricon2 I am also on my third copy of down & out in Paris and London due to lending it out.
I don’t particularly like my current edition, and this thread has reminded me that a friend wanted to read it anyway.

Most of the Jane Austen ones, I have a few collections of them and then I buy cheap copies to read when out and about as well.

I’ve had a few copies of Goodnight Mr Tom as this was my favourite childhood book.

@CheerfulBunny Adrian Mole and the Riders/MWMHJ series are some of my absolutely favourites!

Lots of Wordsworth Classics from my university years which were the cheapest possible way of owning the book. They went into storage and got musty, so instead of rooting out my original copy I buy a better, preferably annotated, version.

I’ve bought and given away 3 copies of The Number One Ladies’ Detective Agency.

James Joyce’s Ulysses in 2 editions, plus annotated Kindle and cheapie Italian.

Puckoon (Spike Milligan)
The Jigsaw Man (Paul Britton)

James by percival Everett

A passion for friends by Jan Raymond

Probably loads of others. I need to do an audit.

Like I keep track?

If there's a book that I like to foist on people, I buy any cheap copy I can find.

This is my second copy of this now, only had the Wordsworth one originally, this one is prettier ☺️ bought it yesterday for my autumn read! I normally reread Dracula coming up to Halloween

Anyone want to put up pics of their different editions!

Gone With the wind

I have most of the Chalet school books in both paperback and hardback, and the same for several L M Montgomery books and a couple of Agatha Christies.

I had three copies of Nye Bevan's In Place of Fear - one paperback but signed by another politician, and two hardbacks. I gave one of the hbs away and kept the one where someone had glued newspaper articles about Nye Bevan on the inside cover.

Three copies of Travels with my Aunt, one of my very favourite books.

I have the first 3 HP books in the Mina Lima editions, the first HP book in the kids illustrated edition and then all 7 "normal" so have duplicates there.

I have my original old and tatty Jurassic Park, I then have it in ebook and audiobook and have my Folio Society version of it which is a beautiful hard backed book (Jurassic Park is my favourite book)!

i lost all my books in a fire (sob) I only replaced books I like to read agsin and again. Which were mostly chick lit.

We have two copies of Pride and Prejudice- one hardback and one paperback, neither of which have been read yet.

Several versions of Jane Austen books such as a battered Pride and Prejudice to read in the bath, a better paperback version, and a posh hardback with lovely cover. Some first edition Mervyn Peake books and modern paperback versions.
Some accidental purchases where I only realise I've already read it 10 pages in. A cartoon book about cats that two people bought me for Christmas.

Several copies of of Noel Streatfeild books. The paperbacks that I had then some hardbacks that are the originals and not abridged.