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

[foursweatervests]

Congratulations! I, myself, had a Great Bookcase Weedout of 2010 just a month ago, and it dragged on for days. I need to do a second one; it's just so hard to say goodbye to some of them, you know?

[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).

[alto2.livejournal.com]

'Tis the season for the purging of the books, I believe. How sad is it that I'm sitting here wanting to blow up the pics and see what all you have/had, and wondering which Short Trips book that is and if you kept it or not (and wanting to ask if I could snag it from you, and then stopping myself to say, "Dumbass, you don't read the ones you have and you're purging your own books--what the hell are you thinking?!?").

Um. Yes. :) Getting rid of things = GOOD.

[magsyb.livejournal.com]

It looks so purty. :D

My mother found a used book store where she can trade in old books for new books to read.. she goes there at LEAST twice a week.. THANK GOODNESS she found that place.. or else our house would have been like one of those houses you couldn't get into a room because you'd have to tunnel through all the books..

[asinpterodactyl.livejournal.com]

I can make out the titles of a lot of those books, which lets me say with confidence that your taste in books is excellent.

You get mega bonus points for the Graeme Base books. Is that "The Discovery of Dragons" next to "Animalia"? I thought that was out of print!

And that big black book on the bottom shelf looks awfully familiar... :-)

[serendipityxxi.livejournal.com]

I love those bookends!

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.