Owww my back! (Or: Junk in my trunk!)

[thistlechaser]

I had a horrible day today, and once I got home I just didn't want to do anything on WoW. So: RL task! My "To Read" book pile wasn't moving. Before I started reading ebooks, the pile would grow and shrink (pile goes up, pile goes down, no one knows why!). For months now, it's sat unchanged. I was tired of having a pile of books on my bedroom floor.

I looked at my bookshelves. Would I ever be willing to read massive hardcovers ever again? No. I'd rather pay $10 for a new e-copy than hold a 500 page hardcover book while reading it. And, know what? For the most part, if I ever want to reread my softcover books, I'd likely just rebuy them instead too. It's too nice reading them on the iPad. I've been spoiled.

So I started sorting my shelves. My initial goal was just emptying one shelf so I could move the To Read pile onto it. I ended up emptying a bookcase and a half! Almost 200 books! I kept my favorite ones, but the rest I packed into my trunk.

An entire trunk full of books!

A quick email to our local library to make sure I could borrow a cart to move them all (they actually have a loading dock and will help me unload!) and now I'm all set: Tomorrow they all get donated to the library!

I had intended to go grocery shopping at lunch, but that can't happen since I have no trunk! :P

I think I owned every single Stephen King book ever printed (I kept maybe five), I had every Warriors book in print (a series for kids but I like talking animal stories so they were enjoyable for me), all my Harry Potter books official and otherwise (I have the main ones in a .text file), a bunch of werewolf ones from the 1980s, and you can see Twilight on the left. I never did read it, but I decided I really never would, so off it goes!

It'll be so good not to have to pack and move these if/when I leave this apartment. Some of those books were shipped by FedEx when I moved from New York! It's a relief not to have to lug physical copies around anymore.

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

It's all fun and games till the EMP hits and then all those electrical copies go poof!

Also, that's too many books. Plus why would you donate Twilight!?! I would have burned it. Or stabbed it through the heart with a steak...does that even work on twilight "vampires"?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but you can just re-download them! Amazon keeps track. If I were to lose/break/whatever my iPad and got a new one (or a kindle), I could just register it and download them all again for free! :D

I still own shelves and shelves of books, more than I'm giving away! I should go through them again and try to cull more out.

"does that even work on twilight "vampires"?"

You're asking the person who didn't read it?! ;)

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

If I remember there is at least 1 person who reads your LJ who read all the books and should know. Somewhere...out there...beneath the pale moonlight. (That was werid, no idea where that is from or why I know it, just seemed to fit)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I think firebyrd read at least the first one! A couple other people have, too. Maybe one will know the answer!

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

Also, that's too many books.

There is no such thing as too many books, sir!

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

Nope, no stakes, though your fire suggestion would work. :)

[ani-mama.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I just bought the Harry Potter books, I could have bought yours! XD

I donated boxes of books to the local library the past summer, and I still have way too many downstairs in the basement. Novels are one thing, but I also have a lot of art books and reference books that I want to hang onto forever and ever. If they only had e-art books! Maybe in a few more years...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Aww, if I had known, I'd have been happy to send them to you! <3

And yeah, this was just novels and fictional stuff, I have a bunch of reference stuff I wanted to hold on to.

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

Physical copies will always have me to fall back upon! I hate reading on technological devices.

Why is this? SURVEY SAYS: I read in the bathtub. XD

Yet another fine example of why Baskin Robbins has 31 Flavors!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's a good reason! Alas I have no bathtub I can use (showers only, for more than a decade! D: D: D: ), but if I did that'd be a good use of physical book format. I'd be paranoid to take the iPad in with me! (More worried about it if I dropped it in than about me!)

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

I'm so weird, but the sight of all those books makes me happy. I absolutely loathe shopping, but put me in a bookstore and I could stay there for hours and hours. Mmmmm, books.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I know! I keep looking at the photo and smiling. But my bookshelves look so much better now! One row per shelf! Nothing balanced on top of the books! I can see everything I have now AND there's space for more!

[fealubryne.livejournal.com]

AND there's space for more!

...I'd SO use that as an excuse. *cough*

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I know. I don't intend to buy anymore physical books, but just in case!

[socksofjello.livejournal.com]

Oh man, you should've sent all those werewolf books my way, trashy or not. I remember, as a young teen, struggling to find [i]any[/i] werewolf fiction at the library, let alone the crap that wasn't just really bizarre smut. (Regenerating hymens, anyone?!)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

(Regenerating hymens, anyone?!)

......... HA HA HA.

Yeah, the werewolf books were pretty bad (I reread most of them a couple years back when I did a smaller culling of my books). Most not smutty though!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

(Regenerating hymens, anyone?!)

Must not read LJ in class. The laughing draws too many eyes XD