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Decluttering: Books

Here’s today’s $64 question: Why the heck is it so hard to get rid of your precious books?

The academic’s standard gigantic home library (usually spilling over into the office, too) could, we must admit, be regarded as just another manifestation of hoarding. Wouldn’t a Kindle or an iPad be better be better than shelf on shelf of dust-catchers?

There are some reasons to think not. Visit Adjunctorium for that line of thought. Meanwhile, I’ve got to go winnow out those bookshelves. First, though, I need to shovel out two closets, a couple of file drawers, and a set of storage shelves.

Later!

4 thoughts on “Decluttering: Books”

  1. I have a DOS 6 book. You would be amazed at how much code you could put into a .bat file to have it do what you needed done.

    But any that book contains knowledge and if our society kacks like in ‘The Book of Eli’, any book that survives will be one step to building a library.

  2. Your Kindle and your iPad has a time limit to it.
    It will die, it will fail and you will lose everything.
    The battery will fail, the memory will fail and finally the processor will fail.
    ‘I can’t do that Dave’.

    A book on the other hand or paw will survive allowing a reader to turn the pages forever.

  3. Not hard for me at all! I always sold my books at the end of each semester in college (I was an English major) because I needed the money. I have moved 14 times (or more – I’ve lost count) since college. Except for three of those, for which my employer paid, I paid for and did them myself. It doesn’t take too many times of packing and loading books to decide to downsize.

    Now I don’t accumulate them because I get them from the library. I read way too much to be able to afford to buy books.

  4. I have 40 years of National Geographic magazines in binders, so I’ll raise you a couple National Enquirers and a Star.

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