
My husband likes to joke that he came to our marriage with two suitcases and I came with a UHaul. That's not too far from the truth. When we moved to Idaho, I had broken the laws of physics packing our moving van, but it was too loaded down and we needed a second one. The main reason? My books.
I used to keep every book that came into my house. Over the years though, I have gotten to the point where I only keep books that I know I will re-read or that I really liked. I just don't have the room for books I don't love or won't re-read.
I also work at not accepting or buying books I probably won't like. I can usually get a good idea before I accept a book for review if I will like it or not and I just don't accept books I know I will probably hate. Life is too short to read books I don't enjoy.
I loan a lot of books to friends. I've given some away. I have taken some to a used bookstore for credit. Now that I have an e-reader as well, I don't have as many print copies coming in, but it's hard to loan ebooks to friends!
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I have weeded my books but need to do it again, more ruthlessly this time. I give my old books to our indie bookstore.
ReplyDeleteI'm down to one bookshelf! Of course, I carry my entire library on my Nook these days.
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I used to buy very few books and I'd keep the ones I bought. Then I became a book reviewer and suddenly I had far more than I could keep. Even now, with so many digital ARCs I still get more hard copies than I can keep. I used to swap them, and I still mail some to some friends but mostly they go to work with me and get given away
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