Also cleaned a whole box of books out of my bookshelves! I’m on a roll! (Wish I could get into using Kindle but I just prefer paper books. )
My upstairs hall used to be lined on both sides with book-cases with the books double-stacked in them. About 45% of them went to my ex. When S moved in with all of her books I did a hard purge to make room and am now down to about 3 bookshelves.
It was telling to me at one point that the books were at one point covered with a thick layer of dust. There is just such an overwhelming amount of content out there that going back to re-read my old friends never happened so I don't (much) regret the forced down-sizing of my library.
I switched to an e-reader (Kobo) quite a few years ago and there's no going back for me. It's nice to be able to do what I did yesterday and sit in the tub (it's waterproof) and read. The big drawback of it - other than occasionally being frustrated by a dead battery is that it conceals the height of my to-be-read pile. I also have a paranoia about the books that I do have electronically vanishing over time. Technology moves on but the printed page endures.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
