Comments on: Needed: More Bookshelves. Stat!

By: heather

heather — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:41:36 +0000

Oh, yeah, that would definitely be rough. It’s certainly… challenging… that both Jeffrey and I are book addicts.

I certainly don’t mind if the library wants to sell them—money for libraries is good. Hopefully I’ll get off my ass and visit the library sometime this week.

By: ScottM

ScottM — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 00:00:33 +0000

Since I moved in with Jennifer, we’ve purchased several bookcases. Two readers moved together, each without the capacity for the books we had, was rough. Fortunately, I’ve become addicted to using the library, so that’s greatly slowed our book acquisition.

Our library happily takes book donations, though they may not keep them– ours often sells donated books (on say, a quarterly basis). They sell them cheaply, which makes it tempting to reverse all the good I’m doing by not buying books in the first place…

By: heather

heather — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:10:52 +0000

Oooooh, that sounds familiar. We moved from New Hampshire to Maryland three years ago, and I sold most of my books on Amazon just so I wouldn’t have to lug them all this way. We also took some to the several shelves that served as a free book exchange at the local recycling center, and were treated to a particularly unusual sight on one of our trips: two very redneck/hillbilly-stereotype-looking men in their 40s or 50s happily rummaging through the science fiction novels we’d dropped off. That was pretty cool.

Best of luck with your move! I don’t envy you there. Moving is just not fun.

By: robustyoungsoul

robustyoungsoul — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:02:26 +0000

Going through a move right now and packing books is all I have spent my time doing. Moving everything else will be cake compared to all of these damn books.

By: heather

heather — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 18:12:01 +0000

Yeah, I think we could put up two or three full new bookshelves and it would maybe be enough for the cookbooks. It wouldn’t even touch everything else.

I tend to feel a bit odd selling off anything that I was given as a review copy, and I know some companies don’t like folks doing that even if it isn’t an ARC, so for those I often pass them along to a friend or family member I think might be interested (unless it’s a cookbook, in which case it stays!). I think there’s a public library near here, so I’ll have to find out if they can take the rest. Of course I hate to give up books that I might someday want to look at, so even then I know I’ll still need more shelves!

I truly do love getting those packages. It’s way more fun than it has any right to be.

By: SciFiChick

SciFiChick — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:48:52 +0000

I know what you mean. My piles of books are getting out of hand. And I just bought a new bookshelf that didn’t make the slightest bit of a difference.
Thankfully, the ones I know I won’t read again can be sold off to HalfPrice Bookstore.. Unless it’s an ARC. Then I’ll just keep it or pass it along to a friend.
And “mini year-round birthdays”.. that’s a perfect way to describe it! I get a bit giddy every time a package arrives. It doesn’t matter how often.