The Great Bookcase Weedout of 2010
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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: 2010-07-30 12:31 am (UTC)I'm also very impressed with how much you threw out! I am so bad at getting rid of stuff. I always want to keep everything even if it's a book I hate/know I will never read again.
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Date: 2010-07-30 05:03 pm (UTC)There are actually few books that I want to keep. If I didn't think I'd read it/part of it again, or if it wasn't not part of a series that's still being produced, it pretty much went out the door. (This is why I prefer using the library--I can give the books back when I'm done!)