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What does your bookshelf say about you?

Does it drive you crazy or are you okay with it?

Books seem too hard to give away because we have such affection for each one. Any one we don't, we should give away.
I'm fine with it, my book stacks are very tidy and organised. A few years back I got rid of a few hundred books that I thought I would never miss. I've regretted it ever since. Every so often I spend an hour or so looking for a book that I know I have, only to realise that it was one of the ones I ditched. I have no intention of making that mistake again.
 
Have any of you ever been featured on one of those 'reality' packrat shows? :)
 
I'm fine with it, my book stacks are very tidy and organised. A few years back I got rid of a few hundred books that I thought I would never miss. I've regretted it ever since. Every so often I spend an hour or so looking for a book that I know I have, only to realise that it was one of the ones I ditched. I have no intention of making that mistake again.

That's where Half Price Books comes in so handy. . .I've replace many a book over the years that somehow had disappeared from my library https://www.hpb.com/home
 
Have any of you ever been featured on one of those 'reality' packrat shows? :)

I don't think so: books are considered way too classy and elitist for that sort of show. People would be rather in awe than disgust watching stacks of books.
 
I checked out my book shelves.
I got the message "ebay here we come"....... :D
 
Most of my visible books are from the library! I have some of my own tucked away but I do love my Delaware County libraries.
 
I don't really own books anymore. Maybe a medical aliment type book here and there and 2 or 3 fix-it-yourself books. A couple decades ago when i moved I packed up all my science fiction books and donated them to the local library. Back then many of the books were not PG rated and were probably thrown out or maybe put out on the give away table.
 
That my "creative writing" books must have written preferably like two thousand years ago, in Latin, but mostly in Greek, that there is relatively little prose among them, even less novels, being mostly in verse (because there are plenty of unintelligible rows of short lines on their pages) and, in any case, they seem to have been chosen, not so much for the language or the era, as for a reason not easily grasped by the uninitiated :cool: :rolleyes: ; and that I also like to keep a (comparatively) few selected monographies of technical literature concerning linguistics (grammars), philosophy and rhetoric (basically metrics), compilations of science formulas, as well as some encyclopedic volumes about the basics of science... then also some spare very technical literature that I may end scanning, and adding to my electronic library, which is a little more varied, but which contains very little "creative" literature.
 
My bookshelf is shrinking month by month.

It's getting digitised and so is my library's— as you can see in this instructional video

 
Marie Kondo just said what all those wonderful best-selled books are to the wise, common people: I once met a woman who would rent a self-storing space for whatever crap of furniture and what not, but who had never thought of doing the same for books, until he saw me managing mine...
We all do exactly the same: we keep a certain amount, be it 0, 3, 30, 300 or 3,000 or 3, or 30, 300 million books, and we just ignore or throw away the rest... pretending you do otherwise is self-deception in the best tradition of universal prudishness. The question is not that you throw away or keep or hoard, but what you pick and keep, for what, for what you used what you ended throwing away and, most importantly, how do you intend to save those books (the information, more than the mere particular format) that you decided to keep from fire, electromagnetic disasters and what not. Any other consideration is, again, pure religious fetishism and moral hipocrisy.
 
I am keeping these.

They are funny, wise, and (in the words of the blurb on the back) provide 'rich and inexhaustible companionship'—

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I am keeping these.

They are funny, wise, and (in the words of the blurb on the back) provide 'rich and inexhaustible companionship'—

Funny, wise, providing rich and inexhaustible companionship... and in English?:

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That my "creative writing" books must have written preferably like two thousand years ago, in Latin, but mostly in Greek, that there is relatively little prose among them, even less novels, being mostly in verse (because there are plenty of unintelligible rows of short lines on their pages) and, in any case, they seem to have been chosen, not so much for the language or the era, as for a reason not easily grasped by the uninitiated :cool: :rolleyes: ; and that I also like to keep a (comparatively) few selected monographies of technical literature concerning linguistics (grammars), philosophy and rhetoric (basically metrics), compilations of science formulas, as well as some encyclopedic volumes about the basics of science... then also some spare very technical literature that I may end scanning, and adding to my electronic library, which is a little more varied, but which contains very little "creative" literature.

Oh, I forgot to add, to make it clear, that I do not like translated works, unless they are part of bilingual editions, or they are on technical subjects which were as poorly styled in one language as in another.
 
I don't like translated works either. I will die before I get to Tolstoy.

(though six months ago I went through two by—

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I hate these.

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Pretentious American biblio-boobs love them but I hate deckled edges.
 
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