Owww my back! (Or: Junk in my trunk!)
Feb. 14th, 2011 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI 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.
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.
