The Great Bookcase Weedout of 2010

[icepixie]

I am entirely unpacked. Hurrah! As promised, here are photos of the Great Bookcase Weedout of 2010.

This is what I was up against:



There was a double row of books on each of the shelves. The narrow white bookcase you'll see later was piled even deeper.

In order to rearrange and figure out what I wanted to sell to the used bookstore, I had to take everything down. Because I am a fool, I decided to start this process at 6:30 at night. Once I started, I had to finish, because, well:







The two boxes quickly filled up with used bookstore fodder. By 10:30, I had finally finished. Behold:





Of course, it helped that we moved one of the bookcases I brought back into the dining room, and I got to take it over entirely:



My anthologies and such wound up on yet another bookcase in the den, which I haven't taken a picture of because it's kind of hidden behind a chair, and I figure this is self-indulgent enough.

Anyway. Yaaaay, it's done! Now I just have to hope that my cunning plan of using the two sets of bookends as a kind of barometer of Hey, You Need to Sell Some Books will work out for me. Once they get within a couple inches of the edge, it's time to chuck the ones I don't want anymore? We'll see.

Comments

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I try to keep a "one in, one out" policy, but it doesn't always work. For instance, I finally, finally bought myself a copy of Brown Girl in the Ring (http://www.amazon.com/Brown-Girl-Ring-Nalo-Hopkinson/dp/0446674338/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280369038&sr=8-1) (for cheap, yay Amazon used!), but I haven't donated Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them (http://www.amazon.com/Lies-Lying-Liars-Tell-Them/dp/0452285216/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280369136&sr=1-1) (because I've read it and it's dated nonfiction so I'm not likely to read it again, but darnit, I like seeing Al Franken's smiling face on my bookshelf, even though, um. NOT a good reason to keep a book).

[icepixie]

I try to keep a "one in, one out" policy, but it doesn't always work.

I really, really need to institute a policy like that.