Book people - want a laugh?

[fred_mouse]

I think I've mentioned previously that I signed up to the 52 week unclutter challenge already. Week 7's challenge is 'books and bookshelves'. The full link is here, but the laugh out loud point was the first dot point of 'today's task'. Quoting the relevant bit:

TODAY’S TASK: DECLUTTER YOUR BOOK COLLECTION AND BOOKSHELVES AND PURGE ALL BOOKS THAT YOU NO LONGER NEED.

• Go through your entire book collection
  
• Keep your favourites and ones that you cannot part with
  
• Donate ones for purging to a second-hand book store or sell eBay etc
  
• Minimise your cookbooks and only keep ones you actually cook from
  
• Rearrange your bookshelves with the books you’re keeping and consider organising them in alphabetical order for easy access.
  
• Store cookbooks together, textbooks together etc.

They also say laugh worthy statements about If you have lots of books just lying around the house, it’s most likely that you really don’t have a proper bookshelf sorted or even a few cubby areas for books and an implication that this might mean you don't know how many books you own (I mean, sure, I don't know the exact number. But I know it to an order of magnitude -- my catalogue count plus <100 uncatalogued for reasons + all the picture books)

Comments

[duskpeterson]

I just got through the first stage of this year's purge (in order to donate books to an upcoming library booksale), and I've concluded for the first time that it's much easier these days for me to donate books gradually to the Littile Free Libraries in town. Instead of having to spend two days deciding the fate of hundreds of books, I can just grab a book or two on the way out the door to a downtown errand, and drop off those books at a Little Free Library on the way.

So constant donating seems to work better for me, as long as the book quantity of each donation is very small.

Now I just have to work on not bringing half a dozen books back from the Little Free Library each time. :)

[fred_mouse]

Hmm. Now I'm going to have to spend some time thinking about what is going to work for me. I suspect I'm some years off the big purge, which is scheduled for when the last of the bagusaii leave home (none yet, and even the eldest is still in uni). But working out an option like the Little Free Libraries might be an idea (we have a swap shelf at work, but I rarely want to read anything there. I have found one that tempts, but I must finish some others first!)

[duskpeterson]

A swap shelf at work sounds ideal!