| Would I have my eBay book store if William | | | | Water Babies was certainly close, Coral |
| Caxton had not started to print books and | | | | Island, the Dog Crusoe more of R M |
| translate large amounts of works into English | | | | Ballantynes, Peter the Whaler I absorbed |
| probably for if he had not done it I am sure | | | | myself in the stories it felt like I was |
| some else would have. The printing press as | | | | there. I listed in my eBay book store |
| an invention must rank alongside the wheel in | | | | recently a book called kidnapped now that was |
| advances for mankind. It is an invention that | | | | a book that fired my imagination. I was lucky |
| enables me to have an online ebay book store | | | | even although I was born and brought up in |
| and earn my living. | | | | the Western Highlands of Scotland there were |
| | | | books at home the school library and the |
| From a personal point of view I cannot | | | | village hall also had a library so I was well |
| remember exactly when I started devouring | | | | catered for. I worked on construction sites |
| books previous to the discovery of books my | | | | all over the UK I remember living and working |
| reading consisted of school work the Dandy | | | | in Gloucester in the late fifties and early |
| and Beano Black Bob in one of the weekly | | | | sixties there were several bookshops that had |
| newspapers I had also read some fairy stories | | | | this great system where you bought a book for |
| and young children's books some copies of | | | | 6d and brought it back after you had read it |
| which I sell in my eBay book store now. I was | | | | and got 3d for it ahh happy days. |
| born at the start of the second world war and | | | | |
| for the first five or six years of my life my | | | | I never thought that I would sell books for a |
| father was a stranger to me being on active | | | | living in my eBay book store I have hundreds |
| service in the army it was after he was home | | | | of books mostly out of print and first |
| from war service for some time possibly a | | | | editions. Nowadays I very rarely read a |
| year or two so I was probably seven or eight. | | | | fiction book I read how to and self |
| I was looking in this huge cupboard one day | | | | development books my love of books is still |
| and it was filled with books I looked through | | | | as strong as ever. When I am looking through |
| some of them and that started me off. | | | | the books prior to listing them I have to |
| | | | forcibly stop myself from reading them if I |
| I cannot remember the first book I read The | | | | did'nt I would never get any thing done. |