Project

[msmemory_archive]

Project for the day: update the SF Books list so that we don't buy (any more) duplicates at Worldcon.

Second project: cut out Viking dress.

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

msmemory isn't just a professional librarian - she's a good one.

I'm astounded that they have so few new books that she can update in less than a day....

I'm starting to look at my house, and how crowded with crud it is, and thinking I need to throw out most stuff or otherwise dispose of it. This runs smack dab not only into my love of stuff, but against my most cardinal rule - "You can't dispose of a book".

Sometime soon I'm going to make some bookshelves in the attic, and just put the books I can't live without (but don't read) there. Let my heirs deal with them. (:-)

(There is also the real possibility that I'll be moving some time in the next 3-5 years - and it will take me that long to get ready. :-)

[jducoeur]

This runs smack dab not only into my love of stuff, but against my most cardinal rule - "You can't dispose of a book".

We're very slowly beginning to changed this particular internalization, to "You can't throw out a book." Library book sales are our friend.

(Of course, it's still near-impossible for us to give away non-duplicate science fiction. But at least some of the other strays have begun to leave the house...)