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• the wrong way (Score:2)

  by jhi (318)

  : culling books from the shelves in my study (to make room for more books)
  
  No no no, you either buy more shelves or a bigger apartment...
  
  • Re:the wrong way (Score:1)

    by chaoticset (2105)

    Every time my SO discusses moving, I start thinking about how hard it's going to be to lug all 6 bookshelves of books around, because they'll all have to be unloaded from the shelves, the shelves themselves moved, the books stored in something else temporarily...

    The apartment always seems more livable after this, somehow. :\

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    • Re:the wrong way (Score:1)

      by dws (341) on 2003.08.08 11:24 (#22899) Homepage Journal

      If you're worried about unloading that many shelves, that implies that their configuration is rather static. Don't you find that you periodically need to rearrange things so that you can keep the books you're using now within reach?

      That's my problem. The shelves within easy reach of my study chair were full of old cruft, some of which I unlikely to ever read again in this lifetime. Meanwhile, the stack on the side of the bed kept toppling over, and the stack in the bathroom kept getting knocked over. My wife has banned the stack that was next to my favorite chair in the living room, so those books had to go somewhere.

      Culling took quite a while, because I had to skim each book to make a decision about it I could live with. I rediscovered that 10-15 years back I used to use postcards as bookmarks, and found some really neat ones.

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      • Re:the wrong way (Score:1)

        by chaoticset (2105)

        The shelves within easy reach of my study chair were full of old cruft, some of which I unlikely to ever read again in this lifetime. Meanwhile, the stack on the side of the bed kept toppling over, and the stack in the bathroom kept getting knocked over. My wife has banned the stack that was next to my favorite chair in the living room, so those books had to go somewhere.

        I haven't been able to get another bookshelf to put in the bathroom (you cannot imagine what an uphill struggle it was to get a coffee

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