Waaaah this is really hard
Feb. 16th, 2012 07:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceWhy yes, once again I am daunted by putting books in boxes.
Specifically, I have scared myself once again by how many books I want to take, how many boxes that amounts to. Given limited funds and limited space at the other end, and so forth.
Thing is, I've just started boxing up the SF paperbacks. Which even all through these last weeks I've been thinking oh, there's only a few shelves, I'll just sling them all in, they're lightweight and they don't take up much space, mass market paperbacks...
Ahem. There turn out to be rather a lot of shelves, which would add up to rather a lot of boxes if I didn't discriminate. So now I'm trying to do that, but oh it is hard. I did have this vague rubric in mind, if I'm not going to (re)read it, I'm not going to take it, and that's that - but these are the books I've been accumulating since I was a kid, they're kind of like an expression of myself as I was, an act of autobiography, y'know? And okay, I'll probably never want to read the Stephen Donaldsons again, and if I haven't read the Jane Gaskells by this time I'm probably never going to, but even so. Leaving them behind is hard.
(And yes, it's fascinating that I really did have all those Philip K Dicks, and no, I don't believe that I'll ever reread more than a handful, but whoops, I do seem to have packed them all...)
Specifically, I have scared myself once again by how many books I want to take, how many boxes that amounts to. Given limited funds and limited space at the other end, and so forth.
Thing is, I've just started boxing up the SF paperbacks. Which even all through these last weeks I've been thinking oh, there's only a few shelves, I'll just sling them all in, they're lightweight and they don't take up much space, mass market paperbacks...
Ahem. There turn out to be rather a lot of shelves, which would add up to rather a lot of boxes if I didn't discriminate. So now I'm trying to do that, but oh it is hard. I did have this vague rubric in mind, if I'm not going to (re)read it, I'm not going to take it, and that's that - but these are the books I've been accumulating since I was a kid, they're kind of like an expression of myself as I was, an act of autobiography, y'know? And okay, I'll probably never want to read the Stephen Donaldsons again, and if I haven't read the Jane Gaskells by this time I'm probably never going to, but even so. Leaving them behind is hard.
(And yes, it's fascinating that I really did have all those Philip K Dicks, and no, I don't believe that I'll ever reread more than a handful, but whoops, I do seem to have packed them all...)