Time To Pack The Books
Jun. 27th, 2007 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI'm about 20 minutes from starting to pack my library.
This will be a major challenge for a couple of reasons. The first, and most obvious, is the number of volumes to be packed.
The bigger challenge will be sorting them. I'm not going to have nearly enough room for all my books at The New Place, so everything will have to be triaged, from Can't Live Without It to Can Live In Garage. At first I thought I'd be selecting by genre, but then I realized that once I've got the Can't Live Without put away, I need to focus on Best of Breed, especially where my non-fiction is concerned.
And no, I don't use my Greek-English lexicon very often, but it looks spiffy on the shelf, so it's staying out.
And of course some are going to end up in the take-them-to-the-used-bookstore bags. Over the past year or so I let go a lot of bookshelf vanity. I still drool over big, well-stocked personal libraries, but I've learned the pleasures of downsizing, and I'm concentrating on keeping only what I truly love and/or will come back to again and again. (Okay, the lexicon is a bit of affectation, but it's only one volume, not three hundred!) I'm sure there will be more volumes I'll be willing to let go of.
Especially since I'm caught up in the tides of change.
This will be a major challenge for a couple of reasons. The first, and most obvious, is the number of volumes to be packed.
The bigger challenge will be sorting them. I'm not going to have nearly enough room for all my books at The New Place, so everything will have to be triaged, from Can't Live Without It to Can Live In Garage. At first I thought I'd be selecting by genre, but then I realized that once I've got the Can't Live Without put away, I need to focus on Best of Breed, especially where my non-fiction is concerned.
And no, I don't use my Greek-English lexicon very often, but it looks spiffy on the shelf, so it's staying out.
And of course some are going to end up in the take-them-to-the-used-bookstore bags. Over the past year or so I let go a lot of bookshelf vanity. I still drool over big, well-stocked personal libraries, but I've learned the pleasures of downsizing, and I'm concentrating on keeping only what I truly love and/or will come back to again and again. (Okay, the lexicon is a bit of affectation, but it's only one volume, not three hundred!) I'm sure there will be more volumes I'll be willing to let go of.
Especially since I'm caught up in the tides of change.
