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