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

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

It astonishes me that dsrtao can not only keep his library listing in his head, he can remember the library books he's read, too. I swear he's set up storage in those parts of the brain that we're supposedly not using.

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

That 10% thing is just a myth; saw an article about it recently.

What *I'd* like to be able to do is convince my hubby to get rid of our duplicates. He seems rather OCD on the topic.

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

You're unlikely to run into the problem I did, but I listened to my first husband and we got rid of our duplicate books when we combined our collections. Then we divorced, and had to divide things we used to have two of. Ouch.

dsrtao and I don't have a lot of dupes, and where we do it's likely that one or both copies contain autographs. So we just kept everything.

[metageek.livejournal.com]

That 10% thing is just a myth; saw an article about it recently.

It started out as some anthropologist speculating wildly, and quickly hardened into conventional wisdom.

What *I'd* like to be able to do is convince my hubby to get rid of our duplicates. He seems rather OCD on the topic.

Enh, for most of them, it's more like "yeah, OK, but when?". The OCDness comes up for books that were mine, for which the book itself (or at least the edition) has meaning beyond the actual contents.