The Great Bookcase Weedout of 2010
Jul. 28th, 2010 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieI 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.
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.
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Date: 2010-07-29 03:31 am (UTC)It is, verily.
How sad is it that I'm sitting here wanting to blow up the pics and see what all you have/had
For your delectation: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 2 is a bit blurry because the flash was glaring off the shiny DVD covers and completely obscuring the titles. For 1, in general, the stuff between the bookends is the "to read" stack, although there are some "to read" books scattered on the bottom shelf as well. And the narrow bookcase is double-stacked, so there's a row behind each of them, mostly of TNG/DS9/VOY and B5 novels, plus a few children's books (Trumpet of the Swan, The Twenty-One Balloons) and a few other things like a history of the UK shipping forecast, a book of Scottish fairy tales, and some misc. novels, both general and sci-fi.
I did keep the Short Trips book, but it's on one of the back rows. It's this one, which I bought for the Charley story. "Qualia," "Balloon Debate," and "The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe" were all good too, though.
Getting rid of things = GOOD.
It's so freeing!