Further thoughts on librarying

[celticdragonfly]

selenite ended up bringing down the Ikea bookshelf that was in Brendan's room, and put it diagonally across the window in the north library. That gives us enough room to get all the fiction, hardback and paperback, and his gaming books into the north library. The south library will be nonfiction, oversized, and the music room.

We need to get a bigger house to have room for more books!

Wait a minute, isn't that just what we did 2 years ago in moving to Texas? Yeek.

Trouble is, they don't build houses with rooms suitable for libraries. We've done pretty well with combining what is officially the living room and the dining room, but still. We could rearrange my study some, get rid of the half-height bookcase, and put in several Ivar units up there, but that really divides the library, craft books up there is logical but what else do we move up there?

I suppose we ought to start culling - really, do we need *three* copies of Heinlein's Expanded Universe on the shelf? - but selenite just doesn't work that way. And it wouldn't be good in the long run. We do have some more room right now, it's not urgent yet.

Goodness, just imagine all the extra books we'll be adding in as the kids get older and homeschooling grows.

Looking at the number of paperback fiction books, and the number of bookcases they take up, as compared to the number of hardback fiction and the shelves THEY take up, I am really feeling that we need to seriously resolve to WAIT for paperback for almost all books from now on. Not because of the savings in price as much as because of the savings in bookshelf space.

Maggie was utterly heartbroken to have Andy and Jazz leave - they were getting their shoes on, she got hers on, she was all ready for "an Adventure!" Took some persuading to convince her that she shouldn't go to Austin with them.

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[yesthattom.livejournal.com]

I'm convinced of two things.

1. Eventually there will be an increase in earthquakes due to all the bookhounds hording books, creating additional weight

2. Someday eBay will create a special mode that lets people upload their entire book library (sans the few books they actually want) and sell them efficiently, letting people make "package deals" and such. This will make so much money that sf geeks will be able to afford to be the next Russian space tourists.

3. When #2 happens, it will cause an economic change that destroys used-bookstores.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

upload their entire book library (sans the few books they actually want) and sell them efficiently,

What? Heretic! We want them all!

Well, I want most of them, and Karl wants the rest.

He did finally get rid of a few books - like the one he warned me not to bother reading and elaborated in detail why it was awful - and I asked WHY had I had to help pack and unpack this hardback through multiple moves?

But mostly, he doesn't get rid of books.