Hello, #hive-collectors community. Today I’m pleased to share March’s theme, a contribution from 
When I was an intern, I met a book salesman who would come to the company, and my mentor would buy books from him. That was my first purchase, and then little by little I started building a collection related to my profession: electrical engineering.
Later, at my workplace, I met a book saleswoman who was part of a book club; she had a catalog, and we could choose from it. I also bought this book on livestock farming because my husband had inherited a piece of land and we needed to learn more about it.
Later, my husband and I developed a passion for electronics, and we started collecting magazines and books that came with kits of materials and tools every week.
In the years that followed, when computing first took off, we were studying systems engineering, so we bought magazines and books on the subject.
We also subscribed to PC Magazine, Selecciones, and Mecánica Popular. I also bought some cookbooks.
When my children were young, I bought them several encyclopedias so they could read about their school subjects, storybooks with CDs, and later dictionaries and atlases covering geography, history, and topics of interest to young people. But they didn’t read them because the internet age had begun.
However, our dream of owning a library remained a top priority, and every time the newspapers El Universal and El Nacional published a collection, I would ask the newsstand owner to set aside a copy of the book 📙 for me each week. Even so, I had a hard time completing the collection. Once I went to the capital city to buy the missing issues, and that’s how the library grew. I had nowhere to put them, so for years they stayed in boxes. Until I claimed a bookshelf I’d left at my mother’s house. So from then on, I displayed a certain number of them there. The rest remained in two boxes—a collection of Bibles, novels, art books, and others.
Our dream isn't quite complete yet, but I haven't bought any more books—I have enough. I only get books as birthday gifts or donations from family members who no longer want them. I have many from my sisters' and my children's school days.
I used to think it was a good idea to lend them out, but people never actually return them. My stepson took one by Paulo Coelho, so the collection is now incomplete. A friend of mine did the same thing—she graduated, left the country, and didn’t even say goodbye or return the books. My daughter also had a dictionary from the collection stolen while she was in high school.
I love this initiative because it helped me take inventory and clean up and organize the books in the library.
Hey #Hive-collectors, I hope you enjoyed this post. I'd love to hear your thoughts...
Well my #Hive-Collectors friends have a nice day!
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