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: 2010-07-30 05:00 pm (UTC)Heh. Many thanks. :)
If you want to see the titles of all the books, click on the links here.
You get mega bonus points for the Graeme Base books. Is that "The Discovery of Dragons" next to "Animalia"?
It is! I didn't realize it was out of print. I've had it for years, though, probably since it first came out, so I wouldn't have been looking. (When I was very small, Animalia kept me occupied for hours. I think it's directly responsible for my lifelong interest in uber-realistic, ultra-detailed art versus, say, impressionism or cubism.)
And that big black book on the bottom shelf looks awfully familiar... :-)
Doesn't it, though... ;)