Which Room in Your Home Contains the Most Reading Material?
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Which Room in Your Home Contains the Most Reading Material?
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I knew it! I knew it! You have just proven me correct that book piles left overnight can reproduce on their ownParadiseLost19 wrote: The result is that small piles of books erupt from the ground because there isn't enough space on the shelves
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I filled up the shelves long ago, and now, when I need to make room for new books, I remove those I can best part with and give them to the library. The shelves stay full, in no apparent order. However, I have a database for them which tells me where to find them - it works very well, and I don't have to reorganize.
I don't mind losing (most) old favorites. First, I don't much care about books as objects* ; second, I rationalize by saying that as long as I always give away my least favorite books my library will keep on getting better, even if not bigger.
*Some books I can't part with. The set of Hemingway novels, in their original dull Scrivener paperback covers, which I bought fifty years ago; Isaac Asimov's The Martian Way and Other Stories, which I bought on Balboa Island one summer when I was fifteen, lost, and finally replaced; the hardcover guides to the Old and New Testaments which my wife loaned me in college; the Stargazer's Guide, which my mom and dad gave me for Christmas, along with a telescope, when I was ten...maybe a few others I'll remember when I've posted this.
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