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Good idea gone wrong

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Sometimes you get an idea, that you think at first will be a good idea, but you don't really think too far ahead, and than when you acutally go to do it, it turns out to be not such a good idea. And by than it is usually too late to go back.

Well I had come acorss this list called 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. And I love book lists so I thought it could be interesting, and I was looking through the list noting all the books upon the list I already read, or many books that I had wanted to read anyway.

So at first I think it will be fun to print this list out. Because I have an obcession with having lists, and well I love checking things off of lists. Though I was not nesscairly planning on trying to acutally read all of the books on the list, I thought it would be fun to check off the ones I have read, and see which ones I wish to read and check those off as I do, and such.


I go to print out the list not really thinking about it, and well as it truns out. 1001 books, makes for a lot of paper and printing, I do not know what I exepcted, but I hadn't thought of that, but I did not want to stop after I was already in the middle of printing and waste what I just printed, so I printed the whole thing out but well it turned out to be a very fat list. Because on the website there were a total of 21 pages, which was not so bad, so I thought when I printed it out it would print like it was on the site.

But I did not think, that it there would be more books on a page on the website than could fit on a peice of paper, so for each one of those 21 pages on the website it printed 5 pages. But I have it now.
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  1. Sweets America's Avatar
    That's all I have to say.
  2. motherhubbard's Avatar
    That's a whopper of a list!
  3. qimissung's Avatar
    I hate when that happens!
  4. Niamh's Avatar
    thats funny!
  5. Nossa's Avatar
    Yup, I know how that feels. I tried it once with a PP presentation for college. Instead of copy/paste the presentation to a word document (like almost every other student in the class) I printed out the whole thing But ya know, at least you got the whole list there with you now
  6. Dark Muse's Avatar
    Yes it was quite amusing, for a moment I began to worry I was going to go through all the printer paper I had in the house. I was just thinking oh dear, what did I get myself into with this