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Jan. 14th, 2007
Book Purge
Jan. 14th, 2007 02:27 pmI would guess that I have pulled between 200-300 books from my shelves this weekend, and I still have a very fine, diverse library. I'm recycling some classics and keeping some quirky, odd things. I'm getting rid of some theology and keeping some sex magic -- and vice versa. I'm getting rid of The Lord of the Rings but keeping Dune and the Wrinkle in Time trilogy. I'm getting rid of three of my four books by Starhawk, but keeping The Spiral Dance because it was profoundly important to my spiritual development. I'm getting rid of half a dozen Grail and Arthurian books but keeping a dozen more. I'm keeping all my books about specific movies and about movie-making in general. I'm keeping most of my books about writing, storytelling, and housekeeping. I got rid a bunch of fantasy and sci-fi, but kept the ones which still warm my heart and/or inspire me. I've gotten rid of all my recently published "expanded universe" Star Wars books but kept Splinter of the Mind's Eye and several volumes of graphic novels and a collection of early comic strips. I've gotten rid of all my Trek fiction except for Diane Duane's The Wounded Sky, My Enemy My Ally, and Doctor's Orders, plus The New Voyages I&II. I gave a couple of medieval military history books to the Ex, but kept everything on modern warfare, martial arts, and warrior philosophy. Got rid of a couple of books about castles, kept all my books about piracy. Kept my first two Princess Merrie books and got rid of all the others. Got rid of about half my erotica. Kept all but one of my tarot books. All my Oz books are going to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kateri_thinks with my blessing.
I now havethree four five tasks:
1. Lug the rest of the purged books out to the car so I can take them to Half-Price books today. I will only recover a fraction of their worth, but I'm not about to try to sell them piecemeal on eBay.
2. Re-shelve everything, decide which books go in the built-in shelves in the living room, which on the shelves in my bedroom. (I'm frequently tempted to just put everything in alphabetical order by author because of spillage when one topical section grows larger and overflows into another location.)
3. Update my computerized "card catalog."
4. Put color sticky dots on the books I have not yet read.
5. Put the public library's website next to Amazon's in my Favorites and stop buying so many books. It was distressing to see how many books I've bought in the last year that I have already forgotten or didn't enjoy enough to finish.
kateri_thinks with my blessing.I now have
1. Lug the rest of the purged books out to the car so I can take them to Half-Price books today. I will only recover a fraction of their worth, but I'm not about to try to sell them piecemeal on eBay.
2. Re-shelve everything, decide which books go in the built-in shelves in the living room, which on the shelves in my bedroom. (I'm frequently tempted to just put everything in alphabetical order by author because of spillage when one topical section grows larger and overflows into another location.)
3. Update my computerized "card catalog."
4. Put color sticky dots on the books I have not yet read.
5. Put the public library's website next to Amazon's in my Favorites and stop buying so many books. It was distressing to see how many books I've bought in the last year that I have already forgotten or didn't enjoy enough to finish.
