Out with the books

[avram]

So what I’ve been doing the past few days is asking myself “Am I ever likely to read this book again, or am I just keeping it out of inertia or a belief that this book is the sort of thing I ought to have around?”. I’ve asked it a few hundred times, and it turns out that I’m only answering yes to the first part about 20% of the time. Then the books that fail get stuffed into boxes and hauled out to the curb. Except for the Liavek books, which I brought home to ladymondegreen.

(BTW, drcpunk, do you have your copy of Fevre Dream, the old mass-market paperback with the white cover? I think the copy I’ve got is one I bought used at a con a few years ago, and I returned the one I borrowed from you.)

Even throwing out the comics is less painful than I’d anticipated, though it takes longer. I’m not likely to decide I suddenly need to flip through Dilvish, the Damned before throwing it out, but those Grant Morrison JLA issues, well.

Comments

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

To the curb? That's amazing! I can't imagine it, but you've probably already checked with comic shops or thrift shops or whatever.

My trouble with sorting is that I can do it for a little while, then the tiny styrofoam pellets start choking my brain. There soon comes a time when I start getting more and more keep-y, and if I don't stop sorting right then, I'll start going back and taking things out of the discard pile and putting them back in the keep pile.

But I'll bet I could get rid of at least some 80s stuff. Groan.

[avram]

Nah. I may try to sell some of the comics, but for the most part, if I had to haul these off to a store to get rid of them, the job would never get done. So it's out to the curb they go.