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Apr. 12th, 2019 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
adairI was in Boston at a Books to Prisoners national conference, the first held in 12 years. No uncluttering got done as I prepared for my first flying experience since the early 90s. Things have changed. The conference was great, and my return flights, alone, gave me time to think about a lot of things, as did the 9 hours overnight at O'Hare because the plane from Boston was late and I missed my connecting flight.
Since my biggest clutter is books I thought off and on about what books I have that I could really donate to BTP or to prison libraries we are currently collecting for. I have begun to rethink the books I keep for reference, or really for re-reading to remind me of issues or statements that I might use in other writing or to development arguments for talking with people about my basic concerns. For instance, I bought White Trash when it was first published, read it and commented on it, and mentally noted that it was particularly strong in how class issues were present from the beginning in US history, including the founders in New England, Virginia and Georgia, and were never really absent from revolutionary thinking. I want to keep the book to check these things should I need to make discussion points. It is hardcover, heavy, and takes up space. When will I really need to make these points? Could I get the ebook and keep that? Might this book not be something a prisoner might like to find in a library? Anyway, it is going into my library-bound box and I will make efforts to get one of the prison librarians to take it when we have a book pickup day.
I hope to make more of these choices as I look through the books on my shelves, or those stored in boxes in the garage. Travel has its benefits on the unclutter front.
Since my biggest clutter is books I thought off and on about what books I have that I could really donate to BTP or to prison libraries we are currently collecting for. I have begun to rethink the books I keep for reference, or really for re-reading to remind me of issues or statements that I might use in other writing or to development arguments for talking with people about my basic concerns. For instance, I bought White Trash when it was first published, read it and commented on it, and mentally noted that it was particularly strong in how class issues were present from the beginning in US history, including the founders in New England, Virginia and Georgia, and were never really absent from revolutionary thinking. I want to keep the book to check these things should I need to make discussion points. It is hardcover, heavy, and takes up space. When will I really need to make these points? Could I get the ebook and keep that? Might this book not be something a prisoner might like to find in a library? Anyway, it is going into my library-bound box and I will make efforts to get one of the prison librarians to take it when we have a book pickup day.
I hope to make more of these choices as I look through the books on my shelves, or those stored in boxes in the garage. Travel has its benefits on the unclutter front.
