Moving books
Sep. 2nd, 2007 09:00 pmThis weekend has mainly involved moving books off shelves and putting them back again.
Originally this was part of the master plan to put the spare carpet down in the bedroom, but we quickly realised that actually there was no way we were ever going to find space to put the books temporarily while we did this so.
So change of plan.
Instead we have now put the new rug down in the book room, on the grounds that no matter what we did it still gets rucked up all the time in the living room. The living will, sometime in the future, get a proper carpet of its very own!
So we have now put all the books back in their correct places on the bookshelf (including the books that had been read but not filed) and had a damn good purge while we were there. This time we were fairly ruthless: we got rid of books by authors that we like some of their stuff but were keeping weaker novels by them just 'cos it was them. For example, I've got rid of the more techno-thriller-esque Paul McAuley novels. I admire McAuley a great deal as a pure sf writer but books like Whole Wide World just leave me cold. We have also got rid of books that we felt we aught to have a copy of but aren't really ever going to re-read.
I haven't counted exactly how many books we are getting rid of but looking at the piles 300-400 would be about the mark I guess. Some will go to one or other family member and most of the childrens' books will go to the school![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
pennski reads at, the rest to charity shops (I know if I was really good I would put lists up and see if anyone wants them, but honestly, that would take a lot of time I'm not going to have in the next few weeks and will also mean lots of books taking up space we don't really have. Sorry.)
We've also rearranged the shelves to leave us with more room to put trade paperbacks and hardbacks away. This may not seem very exciting to you, but to us this is a major step forward!
ETA: Of course, spending eight or nine hours moving around large numbers of books by holding as many as you can between thumb and adjoining finger is a very good way hurting the tendons...
Originally this was part of the master plan to put the spare carpet down in the bedroom, but we quickly realised that actually there was no way we were ever going to find space to put the books temporarily while we did this so.
So change of plan.
Instead we have now put the new rug down in the book room, on the grounds that no matter what we did it still gets rucked up all the time in the living room. The living will, sometime in the future, get a proper carpet of its very own!
So we have now put all the books back in their correct places on the bookshelf (including the books that had been read but not filed) and had a damn good purge while we were there. This time we were fairly ruthless: we got rid of books by authors that we like some of their stuff but were keeping weaker novels by them just 'cos it was them. For example, I've got rid of the more techno-thriller-esque Paul McAuley novels. I admire McAuley a great deal as a pure sf writer but books like Whole Wide World just leave me cold. We have also got rid of books that we felt we aught to have a copy of but aren't really ever going to re-read.
I haven't counted exactly how many books we are getting rid of but looking at the piles 300-400 would be about the mark I guess. Some will go to one or other family member and most of the childrens' books will go to the school
pennski reads at, the rest to charity shops (I know if I was really good I would put lists up and see if anyone wants them, but honestly, that would take a lot of time I'm not going to have in the next few weeks and will also mean lots of books taking up space we don't really have. Sorry.)We've also rearranged the shelves to leave us with more room to put trade paperbacks and hardbacks away. This may not seem very exciting to you, but to us this is a major step forward!
ETA: Of course, spending eight or nine hours moving around large numbers of books by holding as many as you can between thumb and adjoining finger is a very good way hurting the tendons...
