Been trying all day to go through my 1070-books-long to-read list and delete the ones I’m no longer interested in. Have only gone through 200 of them and it’s at about 1000 books now. Neverending O.O
I know. Sometimes that stresses me out lol. Thankfully a lot of the books were added years ago and I’ve now evolved as a reader and no longer want to deal with bad or mediocre books, so I’m being pretty brutal in the weeding out 😛
Oh. You’re so tough. These days sometimes a mediocre book is ok. I don’t know how many books I own but they were very heavy last time I had to move them because there are a lot more hardbacks than when I was younger. We ended up moving them in carrier bags and wine boxes as we could actually lift those without hurting our backs. I understand about e-books but I really like the physical act of holding and reading a book.
Thankfully this is a digital-to-read list full of book-titles rather than actual books (goodreads), otherwise I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to it! I could never throw out a book (although I did once have to do it with a box of old paperbacks because they’d gotten so damp there was a seriously weird smell to them. It’s been 10 years and I’m still moarning the loss lol.).
I’ve been used to hauling moving boxes of books since I was a teen, so I don’t mind lol. I have no idea how many books I own. But I do tend to be pickier these days when it comes to choosing what to buy (or even just what to put on a list of wishes), probably because I spend so much time studying really good literature in-depth that I don’t want to waste any time on bad ones in my spare time. Also being a poor student without too much space is a bit of an obstacle to book hoarding 😛
Short version: forgot to say I agree with e-books, physical books are so much more charming! And I have more hardbacks than before too, love them, but hard to move, not just cause of weight, but because they’re delicate and need to be wrapped in something first.
No. Two messages arrived. It’s true that the old paperbacks aren’t so good now but they are often the classics so I don’t want to let them go. Oh for Chicago Typewriter’s shelves. We have two rooms here with built in bookcases but we still have them stacked up.
There was a third message in between those two lol, where I had a “PS I agree with ebooks” in longer form 😛
I think I may have finished CT purely to be able to keep looking at those bookshelves.
TWO ROOMS WITH BUILT IN BOOKCASES???? *green with envy* I’ve always wished for built-in bookcases. It’s one of the only reasons I sometimes think it would be nice to be loaded lol. I’d instantly buy a Victorian house with built in shelves, except we don’t have Victorians here, so there’s that hurdle to get over as well 😛
Where’s here? Our last house WAS a Victorian town house on 4 floors with the kitchen in the basement and my daughter’s room in the attic. We had some really nice original cupboards but there were no built in bookcases so when we decided to sell it we boxed up most of the books and moved them to the store so it looked more normal (boring). Of course we immediately started buying more books. LOL
Denmark. We have lots and lots of old, beautiful buildings, but Victorians are something particularly British/American, I think?
Except for the no bookcases part, that sounds dreamy! Lol at having to move your books, it must have been so weird living in a house with no books until it was sold! Like the quote goes: “A room without books, is like a body without a soul”. Or something like that 😛
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kaybee
June 27, 2017 at 8:28 AM
Been trying all day to go through my 1070-books-long to-read list and delete the ones I’m no longer interested in. Have only gone through 200 of them and it’s at about 1000 books now. Neverending O.O
vannerie
June 27, 2017 at 8:51 AM
Hahaha. Those are just the books you know about.
kaybee
June 27, 2017 at 9:03 AM
I know. Sometimes that stresses me out lol. Thankfully a lot of the books were added years ago and I’ve now evolved as a reader and no longer want to deal with bad or mediocre books, so I’m being pretty brutal in the weeding out 😛
vannerie
June 27, 2017 at 10:54 AM
Oh. You’re so tough. These days sometimes a mediocre book is ok. I don’t know how many books I own but they were very heavy last time I had to move them because there are a lot more hardbacks than when I was younger. We ended up moving them in carrier bags and wine boxes as we could actually lift those without hurting our backs. I understand about e-books but I really like the physical act of holding and reading a book.
kaybee
June 27, 2017 at 11:45 AM
Thankfully this is a digital-to-read list full of book-titles rather than actual books (goodreads), otherwise I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to it! I could never throw out a book (although I did once have to do it with a box of old paperbacks because they’d gotten so damp there was a seriously weird smell to them. It’s been 10 years and I’m still moarning the loss lol.).
I’ve been used to hauling moving boxes of books since I was a teen, so I don’t mind lol. I have no idea how many books I own. But I do tend to be pickier these days when it comes to choosing what to buy (or even just what to put on a list of wishes), probably because I spend so much time studying really good literature in-depth that I don’t want to waste any time on bad ones in my spare time. Also being a poor student without too much space is a bit of an obstacle to book hoarding 😛
kaybee
June 27, 2017 at 11:49 AM
Apparently I posted an inappropriate word? *sigh*
Short version: forgot to say I agree with e-books, physical books are so much more charming! And I have more hardbacks than before too, love them, but hard to move, not just cause of weight, but because they’re delicate and need to be wrapped in something first.
vannerie
June 27, 2017 at 12:08 PM
No. Two messages arrived. It’s true that the old paperbacks aren’t so good now but they are often the classics so I don’t want to let them go. Oh for Chicago Typewriter’s shelves. We have two rooms here with built in bookcases but we still have them stacked up.
kaybee
June 27, 2017 at 1:40 PM
There was a third message in between those two lol, where I had a “PS I agree with ebooks” in longer form 😛
I think I may have finished CT purely to be able to keep looking at those bookshelves.
TWO ROOMS WITH BUILT IN BOOKCASES???? *green with envy* I’ve always wished for built-in bookcases. It’s one of the only reasons I sometimes think it would be nice to be loaded lol. I’d instantly buy a Victorian house with built in shelves, except we don’t have Victorians here, so there’s that hurdle to get over as well 😛
vannerie
June 27, 2017 at 2:33 PM
Where’s here? Our last house WAS a Victorian town house on 4 floors with the kitchen in the basement and my daughter’s room in the attic. We had some really nice original cupboards but there were no built in bookcases so when we decided to sell it we boxed up most of the books and moved them to the store so it looked more normal (boring). Of course we immediately started buying more books. LOL
kaybee
June 27, 2017 at 3:12 PM
Denmark. We have lots and lots of old, beautiful buildings, but Victorians are something particularly British/American, I think?
Except for the no bookcases part, that sounds dreamy! Lol at having to move your books, it must have been so weird living in a house with no books until it was sold! Like the quote goes: “A room without books, is like a body without a soul”. Or something like that 😛