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[arduinna]

I'm winnowing out a bunch of stuff, including books - which I've already repeatedly winnowed, to the point that I now have hundreds instead of thousands*, and it seems to get easier with every pass; I'm better and better at deciding how much I really love something vs. how much I just like having it on a shelf. ... To a point. Apparently that point is my now-smaller reference section, which was originally (years ago) the easiest thing to weed out. There are books on those shelves that I completely forgot I owned, whose research is sometimes decades out of date, and that I've never read beyond flipping through them in the store and then later in my office deciding whether to keep them. But they look so INTERESTING, argh. But I'm moving soon, and are they interesting enough to pack and lug, with the whole internet at my fingertips?

Answer: That decision is too hard to make so instead I will post to DW about having to make it. *headdesk*


* I should note, all this winnowing started after e-books started being a real thing. So lovely and non-dusty and portable! So the hardcopy books that are left are supposed to just be the "I can't bear to not have a physical copy on hand". Supposed to be.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I feel your pain!

[kay_brooke]

I hear you. I'm already dreading the task of packing up all my books when I move in a few months. But I'm not sure I'm willing to winnow the collection down any more!

GIP

[jesse_the_k]

I'm about to start this process.


Two years back I stopped buying any mass-market print books. Now it's just very small press and comics. It helps that I live near the library, so I feel like it's my extra bookshelf. Also, with the ebooks.